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Getting Under Your Skin

Tweet Skin cancer patients and others may soon benefit from a non-invasive form of gene therapy. A topical treatment uses nanotechnology to deliver gene-regulation technology exactly where it’s needed. Topical gene therapy has been in use since the 1990s, but…

Switching Off Breast Cancer

There’s some good news for women at risk for breast cancer. New advances in the understanding of how tumors develop is providing an unprecedented understanding of what triggers normal cells to become cancerous. This means that it may be possible for doctors to see signs of breast cancer earlier than ever, possibly before cancer even develops.