Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death
in the United States. The 5 year survival rate is ∼55% for early stage lung cancer but only 5% for
late stage lung cancer, reflecting the urgent need for effective screening and
early detection methods.
When parents eat low-protein or high-fat diets it can lead to metabolic disorders in their adult offspring. Now, an international team led by researchers at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) have identified a key player and the molecular events underlying this phenomenon in mice.
A sperm enters an egg, an embryo develops and eventually a baby is born. But back up a second -- how does the mother's half-genome actually merge with the father's half-genome to form one new human genome? Turns out researchers don't really know that much about these relatively brief, yet crucial, incipient moments in fertilization.
A joint research team, led by Professor Ja Yil Lee (School of Life Sciences, UNIST) and Professor Ji-Joon Song (Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST) has unveiled the structure and mechanism of proteins that are highly overexpressed in various cancers and associated with poor patient prognoses. Such research findings could speed up the discovery and development of new cancer drugs.
The new article concludes that requiring (substantial) copayments for NIPT (non-invasive prenatal testing) in universal access healthcare systems fails to promote reproductive autonomy and is unfair.
