Attaching an ingredient in scorpion venom to nanoparticles of iron oxide can help therapeutic genes to reach more brain cancer cells than existing approaches.

A new imaging technique may make it possible to spot a single cancerous cell that has broken free from a tumor.

Australian researchers have uncovered a new mutation in stem cells that may be linked to the development of leukaemia, breast and colon cancer.

US researchers have devised a delivery system that may allow clinicians to use higher doses of a powerful chemotherapy drug that has been limited because it is toxic not only to tumors but to patients’ kidneys.

Lasers can heat specific molecular assemblies of gold nanoparticles with a tumour-targeting molecule to a temperature that causes explosive microbubbles to form and wipe out cancer cells.

Yes mobile phones have been linked to brain cancer – again. Despite widespread coverage, I have yet to see mad panic or mass binning of mobile phones. Why not, I wonder.

Junk DNA that becomes active may be a new driving force behind Hodgkin’s lymphoma and similar blood-borne cancers.

Researchers have demonstrated the first proof that a nanoparticle can target, enter and deliver small chunks of RNA that can turn off the production of cancer protein.

Australian researchers have found that a variant of a gene associated with skin pigmentation, hair and eye colour is linked to increased survival in breast cancer patients.

Media reports have scientists creating nano robots that destroy cancer. Reality is a long way from this and it is the type of hype that does such research no favours.