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Topic: Cancer

Dinosaurs may have also suffered from cancer — scientists discover fossil with diseased bone

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

US Supreme Court judge Ruth Ginsburg gives liberals a scare with cancer revelation

The news has raised questions about the top court’s future as the already conservative court could turn further to the right if Trump appoints a successor to 87-year-old Ginsburg.

Rajesh Khanna’s Safar is a melancholy meditation on life, death, love and duty

Even before the more famous Anand, the superstar had perfected the role of a dying man who wants to spread joy, but Safar is far darker and less feel-good.

We built a map on how coronavirus use human cells to spread. It is very similar to cancer

For years, researchers suspected that kinases – biological control switches that viruses use to take over cells – could be targeted to fight infections. Now we are decoding how.

Lockdown saw fall in cancer care, child delivery claims under Ayushman Bharat: Govt report

The oncology claims fell by 64 per cent across India, while child-deliveries fell by 26 per cent during the lockdown. The report called this trend ‘worrying’.

Response to Covid has come at the cost of tackling the more fatal cancer

Early detection of cancer is key to survival and treatment. Yet Covid-19 has deterred people from seeking help to avoid the hospital or burdening the medical system.

Let’s not forget cancer treatment – message from oncology summit held in the shadow of Covid

The cancer summit showed that even as drug industry races to identify virus treatments & vaccines cancer remains perhaps its most important business overall.

New blood test proves successful in detecting multiple cancers early on

The test even detected ovarian and uterine cancer, for which there are no existing screening tests and usually no symptoms until it’s too late.

Cancer, dialysis patients struggle for treatment as hospitals are stretched by Covid-19

Most government hospitals have stopped routine services & are running only emergency departments and conducting emergency surgeries.

New insights into genes that drive cancer: A study of 2,700 samples

The results of the international project has enormous implications for diversifying the current suite of drugs available for gene-targeted cancer treatment.

On Camera

Epstein files and what they mean for the American anger against elites

Of all academic institutions, it is at Harvard, the richest and perhaps the most powerful academic institution in the world, that Epstein’s ties appear to have flourished most.

To meet fund crunch, Karnataka to auction plots in Bengaluru, raise Rs 4,000 crore

Siddaramaiah govt’s five schemes strain finances as GST changes hit revenues; debt to jump nearly Rs 80,000 crore. State also plans to auction liquor licences & extend bar timings.

Not just BSF, MHA working on rules to reserve 50% of all CAPF constable posts for Agniveers

The MHA is deliberating on new recruitment rules for all CAPFs, including the CRPF, ITBP, and SSB. It wants to incorporate a 50% quota for Agniveers across the CAPFs.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.