The NCCN's new resource educates patients on genetic testing for hereditary cancer risk, focusing on breast, ovarian, pancreatic, and prostate cancers. Advances in genetic technology, spurred by the ...

This year saw notable progress in head and neck cancers, Huntington's disease, personalized genetic therapy, and heart ...

Whitney Maxwell, MS, CGC, stands at the helm of the Inherited Cancer Research Shared Resource at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, overseeing a dynamic team of genetic counselors, ...

Scientists at UC Davis discovered a small genetic difference that could explain why humans are more prone to certain cancers than our primate cousins. The change affects a protein used by immune cells ...

Like many cancer patients, Michael Wolff wanted answers. But, like many cancer patients in 2015, he wasn't getting them. After years of lymphoma treatment, the renowned jazz musician was still sick ...

That team has now moved on to human patients, with a two-pronged approach: an off-the-shelf cancer vaccine, followed by a personalized one. They have also run trials of personalized vaccines for the ...

The first fifty years of Mendelism. The introduction of Mendelism into human genetics / Milo Keynes. Galton's theory of ancestral inheritance / Michael Bulmer. The reception of Mendelism by the ...