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Findings published last week in the… view more Credit: Photos by Dr. Marc M. Baum Monrovia, CA (June 12, 2016)...

One of the major obstacles with treating cancer is that tumors can conscript the body’s immune cells and make them...

Credit: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center San Diego, Calif. – An emerging cancer therapy has colorectal tumors surrounded. Presenters at...

A model that predicts outbreaks of zoonotic diseases — those originating in livestock or wildlife such as Ebola and Zika...

San Diego, Calif. – Malignant neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are relatively rare, notoriously difficult to treat, and associated with poor long-term...

Credit: (University of Arizona Health Sciences) TUCSON, Ariz. – Sixty-five is the age when many people retire, kick back and...

Knowledge of the minute details of the proteins that are linked to diseases is crucial if we are to discover...

In a milestone years in the making, a vaccine to prevent cholera, invented and developed by researchers at the University...

Established Aedes-mosquito population could spread the Zika virus in Europe this summer if infected travelers introduce the virus. An analysis...

Coronary or peripheral bypasses are the most frequently performed vascular operations. Although one million patients per year and around the...

Credit: Lakshmipriya Krishnamoorthy and Joseph Cotruvo Jr., UC Berkeley Is copper deficiency contributing to the obesity epidemic? Though small amounts...

The research article – Targeting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR Pathway in Prostate Cancer Development and Progression: Insight to Therapy, by Dr Claudio...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan parasite about five microns long, infects a third of the world’s population. Ingested...

SALT LAKE CITY, June 9, 2016 – When new AIDS virus particles bud from an infected cell, an enzyme named...

Cancer stem cells are like zombies — even after a tumor is destroyed, they can keep coming back. These cells...

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report they have developed an experimental laboratory test that accurately clocks the “speed” of human brain...

New research explains why so many biological networks, including the human brain (a network of neurons), exhibit a hierarchical structure,...

Candida yeasts normally live on human skin and mucous membranes without causing disease. In individuals with a weakened immune system,...

In a recent development, scientists at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research report that damage to DNA can be induced...

Credit: University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified a...