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Adult stem cells represent a sort of blank clay from which a myriad of different cell and tissue types are...

Scientists can interfere with sperm production in the parasitic blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni by blocking expression of the Nuclear Factor...

Scientists at EPFL have found a way to starve liver cancer cells by blocking a protein that is required for...

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,...