News

High Risk Individuals
- Breast Cancer Survival Gene
  14/04/2010
  QIMR researchers, as part of an international collaboration, have found that a gene that is most commonly associated with skin pigmentation, hair and eye colour may influence a patient's chances of surviving cancer.
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- Research News NBCF!
  12/04/2010
  Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have discovered that breast stem cells are exquisitely sensitive to the female hormones oestrogen and progesterone....
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- Should Genes be patented
  5/02/2010
  The lawsuit challenges the government's granting of control of patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2 to Myriad Genetics (USA).
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