dutch researchers

(Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) What behavior do Web site visitors exhibit? Do they buy a specific product mainly on Mondays?

Do they always return at a certain time of day? Being able to recognize and make use of such patterns is lucrative business for companies.

Edgar de Graaf discovered that interesting patterns often contain a time aspect. Jeroen De Knijf developed methods to detect relevant patterns quicker.

Dutch researchers report identifying a set of seven genes responsible for drug resistance and aggressiveness in the most common form of breast cancer.

These genes, some of which are novel, could provide therapeutic targets for personalized treatment of breast cancer and, possibly, for prevention of disease, they say.

These genes are found in estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer, which investigators say is usually more treatable than breast cancer that is not fueled by estrogen.