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Credit: The University of Melbourne University of Melbourne doctors and engineers are using supercomputers to create 3D models from patients...

New Rochelle, NY, April 7, 2016–A new, low-cost approach to building a knee model for studying knee pain and impaired...

The following is adapted from a Q&A published today by the Broad Institute. Single-cell analysis is a groundbreaking approach now...

Several studies have recognized a link between obesity and cancer. Richard Lehner, professor of Pediatrics and investigator at the University...

For more than a decade, biomedical researchers have been looking for better ways to deliver cancer-killing medication directly to tumors...

A unique pitch competition hosted by the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research on Friday awarded a team of...

Credit: Photo: Anna Bloms / Lund University Research from Lund University in Sweden shows that the protein COMP, which mainly...

Pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, in part because it is very...

TORONTO, April 22, 2016–People who had cancer before receiving an organ transplant were more likely to die of any cause,...

Researchers have identified a rare genetic variation associated with a dramatically increased risk of severe acute pancreatitis in acute lymphoblastic...

Human malaria, uniquely transmitted by a handful of anopheline mosquitoes, continues to attack nearly 200 million people and claims the...

ITHACA, N.Y. – The human heart is a remarkable muscle, beating more than 2 billion times over the average life...

This news release is available in German. Our genetic material – our DNA – must be stable; so that it...

Researchers reporting in the American Journal of Human Genetics, published by Cell Press, have completed the first in-depth genetic analysis...

PHILADELPHIA–A new genetic clue discovered by a team co-led by a researcher at the Perelman School of Medicine at the...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) hijacks the host's fat metabolism for its own survival, growth, and transport in the human body....

AMHERST, Mass. – Mycobacteria cause a number of dangerous, difficult-to-treat diseases including leprosy and tuberculosis, and progress has been slow...

Chemists at the University of California San Diego have designed a set of molecules that promote microscopic, anatomical changes in...

More than half of our brains are made up of glial cells, which wrap around nerve fibers and insulate them–similarly...

Montreal (Quebec), April 13, 2016 – Catherine Aaron and Gabrielle Beaudry were 17 when they knocked on the door of...