It's deadly and hard to detect, but now a team of Yale researchers have identified a genetic marker that can help predict the risk of developing ovarian cancer. Reporting online in the July 20 edition of the journal Cancer Research , the Yale team showed that a variant of the KRAS oncogene was present...

University of Arizona (UA) entomologists have created the world’s first mosquito completely immune to the malaria parasite. Michael Riehle, UA’s professor of entomology led a team of molecular biologists who designed a piece of genetic information capable of inserting itself into a mosquito's...

A new project that hopes to decode the genomes of 10,000 people has been launched in the UK. The UK10K project is being run by the Wellcome Trust, a global charity that supports research to improve human and animal health. It is expected to be one of the largest genome-sequencing programmes ever undertaken...

What would you do to bring innovation in healthcare to life? For William Wells, Communications Manager, iSOFT, the answer is simple. "You need live demonstrations with small groups of people. And you can't just present. You need to offer visitors hands on experience of new interfaces and devices...