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Adult organisms ranging from fruit flies to humans harbor adult stem cells, some of which renew themselves through cell division...

Scientists at A*STAR’s Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and the Bioinformatics Institute (BII) have found new clues to early detection...

Building upon previous research, scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Veteran’s Affairs San Diego...

Scientists at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have grafted neurons reprogrammed from skin...

Researchers from the University of Bradford have devised a simple blood test that can be used to diagnose whether people...

The HIV-1 virus has proved to be tenacious, inserting its genome permanently into its victims' DNA, forcing patients to take...

Only 8.2% of human DNA is likely to be doing something important – is 'functional' – say Oxford University researchers....

Treatment of HIV patients co-infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) with an anti-retroviral drug therapy not only tackles HIV,...

Cancer is a disease of the genome resulting from a combination of genetic modifications (or mutations). We inherit from our...

A type of immune cell widely believed to exacerbate chronic adult brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis...

A new understanding of the mechanism that makes neuro cells turn cancerous brings us nearer to a treatment for brain/neuro...

Cancer has left its 'footprint' on our evolution, according to a study which examined how the relics of ancient viruses...

Scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have developed a scalable, next-generation platelet bioreactor to generate fully functional human platelets...