Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute provides expert care to cancer patients while performing research to promote the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of cancer and related diseases.

Affiliation: Teaching hospitals
Web site: http://www.dfci.harvard.edu/

Recent articles about Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Researchers ‘NOTCH’ a victory in war on cancer (November 12, 2009)
Darkness with the light (October 26, 2009)
Researchers exploit genetic ‘co-dependence’ to kill treatment-resistant tumor cells (October 20, 2009)
Three Harvard teams to receive $9 million each in federal funding for stem cell research (October 8, 2009)
NIH funds risky, potentially transformative research by Harvard faculty members (September 24, 2009)
Study finds promise in combined transplant/vaccine therapy for high-risk leukemia (August 24, 2009)
Study supports DNA repair-blocker research in cancer therapy (August 17, 2009)
Postdiagnosis aspirin use reduces risk of dying from colorectal cancer (August 12, 2009)
Scientists create energy-burning brown fat in mice (July 29, 2009)
An unusual collection : A brain tumor tissue bank (July 23, 2009)
First molecular steps to childhood leukemia identified (July 15, 2009)
Study pinpoints novel cancer gene and biomarker (June 24, 2009)
Radcliffe’s Fay Prize awarded to Norman Yao for pioneering research (June 16, 2009)
AML patients benefit from stem cell transplants (June 9, 2009)
After a century, link between chromosomal instability and centrosome defects in cancer cells is unraveled (June 9, 2009)
DFCI cancer research highlights age-related treatment effectiveness, patient cost concerns (May 29, 2009)
Genetic Testing For Breast Or Ovarian Cancer Risk May Be Greatly Underutilized (ScienceDaily, May 27, 2009)
Genetic testing for breast or ovarian cancer risk may be greatly underutilized (May 21, 2009)
Scientists create custom three-dimensional structures with ‘DNA origami’ (May 20, 2009)
Embryo’s heartbeat drives blood stem cell formation (May 13, 2009)

Affiliated researchers cited in HarvardScience