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A team of scientists has found that an existing cancer drug could be repurposed to target a subset of cancers that currently lack targeted treatment options and are often associated with poor outcomes. This subset of cancers makes up 15% of all cancers and is especially prevalent in aggressive tumors such as osteosarcoma (bone tumor) and glioblastoma (brain tumor). These cancerous cells stay "immortal" using a mechanism called the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT), but the team has demonstrated that ponatinib, a cancer drug approved by the US FDA, blocks key steps in the ALT mechanism that leads it to...

Milo Yiannopoulos announced at a Tuesday New York City press conference his decision to resign as Breitbart Tech editor.

So this happened: Milo Yiannopoulos’ event at DePaul University had to be cut short Tuesday night after protesters stormed the stage, blew whistles, grabbed the microphone out of the interviewer’s hand, and threatened to punch Yiannopoulos in the face. Watch the video clip here. More from the Breitbart story: Yiannopoulos attempted to continue the event, but protesters refused to leave the stage and the group of security guards (which DePaul forced both the organisers and Breitbart to pay for) refused to intervene.

4 American ALTs Missing in Quake-Hit Tohoku Cities Tokyo, March 17 (Jiji Press)--Four American assistant language teachers have gone missing in northeastern Japan cities devastated by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and following big tsunami waves last Friday, Jiji Press learned Thursday. The assistant teachers, called ALTs, are members of the government-sponsored Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, or JET Program. At the time of the disaster, one of them was working in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, another one in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, and the remaining two in Kesennuma, also Miyagi Prefecture, said an official of the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations,...

Visitors to porn sites are at serious risk of being exploited by cyber criminals, a study has suggested. It found that many sites harboured malware or used "shady" practices to squeeze money out of their visitors. By creating their own porn sites researchers found that many consumers were vulnerable to known bugs and loopholes. Competition among porn sites makes the online adult industry ripe for abuse by hi-tech criminals. "They have almost inadvertently created a whole ecosystem that's easy to abuse for cyber crime on a large scale,...."