BLOG - cancer

developer

Interview: Dominic Hill, „Surviving Terminal Cancer“

A new documentary film questions the traditional methods of brain cancer treatment and research.

developer

Mini Lecture: Cancer

Statistically, every third person will eventually develop cancer – time to learn more about the disease!

Christine Gorman

Could A Cow Virus Cause Colon Cancer?

Repost: Christine Gorman on Harald zur Hausen’s cancer research.

developer

Nature Outlook 2014: Medical Research Masterclass (from Lindau)

Nature once again has published a special supplement on occasion of the Lindau Meeting – this time taking you on a trip to the frontiers of medical research.

Jalees Rehman

A Tough Balance: Cancer Research and Motherhood

Dr. Christiane Opitz – Studying cancer cell metabolism, treating terminally ill patients, pursuing an academic career and enjoying motherhood.

Mohit Kumar Jolly

Cellular reprogramming: Still scraping the surface

The concept of reprogramming raises questions about how stable the identity of a particular cell is.

Jalees Rehman

The Stress of Ageing

How do I knock off thirty years from my age?

Beatrice Lugger

Nature Video: Combating Cancer with Edmond Fischer

Nobel Laureate Eddie Fischer was born in Shanghai in 1920. Since then, China has emerged as an economic superpower. Now it’s becoming a scientific heavyweight too. Tong Qing belongs to the newest generation of Chinese scientists. She decided to study cancer after a family friend became ill with breast cancer. In this film, she tells […]

Beatrice Lugger

Nature Video: The virus catchers with Harald zur Hausen

Young researchers Jan Gralton and Sven-Eric Schelhorn are fascinated by the minute world of viruses. They have plenty of questions for Harald zur Hausen who won a Nobel Prize for proving that human papillomaviruses (HPV) can cause cervical cancer. All three are worried by public distrust of the HPV vaccine, which was made possible by […]

Christine Ottery

Infections that cause cancer – Harald zur Hausen

Even if you adore red meat, you’ll put off your big juicy steak by hearing what Harald zur Hausen has to say about it. At the 61st Lindau meeting, the Nobel laureate spoke about his current hypothesis about why beef causes colorectal cancer. He thinks it might contain a nasty pathogen that infects us that then causes […]

Beatrice Lugger

Harald zur Hausen – Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2011

Infections in the Etiology of Human Cancers

Jessica Riccò

Mehr als nur HPV: Impfungen gegen Krebs

Der späte Vormittag gehörte in Lindau den Medizinern: Zunächst erzählte Harald zur Hausen von den Zusammenhängen zwischen Infektionen und Krebs, dann legte Luc Montagnier seine Forschungsergebnisse zur Physik und Biologie der DNA vor – böse Zungen behaupteten, der Mann sei nun unter die Homöopathen gegangen. Zuletzt sprach Francoise Barré-Sinoussi über die Entdeckung von HIV und […]