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Today the FDA launched a new era in cancer treatment with its approval of the first cancer gene therapy drug...

Aug. 29, 2017 - For women undergoing risk-reducing mastectomy to prevent breast cancer, reconstruction can be challenging in those with...

Credit: Camilla De Nardis, Linda J. A. Hendriks, Emilie Poirier, Tudor Arvinte, Piet Gros, Alexander B. H. Bakker and John...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 28, 2017--New biologic drugs, such as monoclonal antibodies and immunotherapies...

ASCO Perspective Merry-Jennifer Markham, MD, FACP, ASCO Expert in Cancer Survivorship "More than ever before, young cancer survivors are living...

Credit: IBS New blood vessels branch out of preexisting ones is via a process called angiogenesis. Although this is essential...

A protein, called inositol-requiring enzyme 1 -- IRE1 -- may serve as a key driver in a series of molecular...

Credit: (None required.) NEW YORK and BOSTON (Aug. 29, 2017)--Federal, state, and local governments each have a role to play...

Credit: Ayrton Vollet-Neto / University of São Paulo Queens of stingless bee species (Meliponini) face a reproductive dilemma. If they...

Credit: AIP Publishing WASHINGTON, D.C., August 29, 2017 -- There might be a new and improved way to rid contaminated...

Every food decision we make involves a trade-off of some kind. A healthy option might not be the most environmentally-friendly;...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--A natural process that occurs during photosynthesis could lead to the design of more efficient artificial...

For the first time, scientists have completed a detailed study of many of the proteins in bowel cancer cells. Scientists...

Physicist Michio Kaku once said, "What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics...

By combining new system-biological analyses and advanced data analysis, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have been able to monitor the maturation...

One key property to evaluate the prospects of any shale oil or gas is its total organic carbon (TOC) richness....

Credit: David Hirsch Researchers have identified a set of genes that help control early drought response in a popular global...

Biomedical engineering researchers at Case Western Reserve University are refining more than 15 years of work on an electrical nerve-block...

Credit: Zookeys Journal Biologists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have named three new, rare...

Our bodies, with all their different features and variations, are the result of well-orchestrated processes that dictate what and how...