A radiogenomics analysis of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) demonstrated associations between CT features and underlying mutations that require further investigation and validation, according to a study published in the February issue of Radiology. 

Major cancer research organizations are banding together to assess how cancer disparity research will move forward. In the first collaboration of its kind, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) announced Feb. 13 that the institute would be working with the American Cancer Society, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to address concerns such as access to health care and factors related to variability of cancer outcomes.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have fashioned a smarter nanoparticle that runs RNA interference as a means of disease modification, the institute announced Feb. 10.

The use of an endothelialized microfluidic chip could be the key to understanding how nanoparticles in biomedicine behave in the presence of atherosclerosis, according to a study published online Jan. 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Nanomedicine incorporates some of the most prized materials on earth in order to improve not only its biocompatibility and imaging potential, but its ability to sneak up on and change the way that cells function for the tiniest aspect of personalized medicine.

A community hospital in Indiana recently implemented a comprehensive lung screening, smoking cessation program and multidisciplinary thoracic oncology clinic, and detailed its experiences in an article published online Feb. 12 by the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

An EDGE™ point-of-care ultrasound system from FUJIFILM SonoSite is helping the Medical Services team at Harlequin FC rugby club to diagnose and monitor musculoskeletal injuries, providing valuable information to aid the treatment and rehabilitation of players.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore are collecting images of children’s brains in order to build an imaging databank that can be searched by doctors around the world to help diagnose and treat neurological disorders.