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Penn-led study resolves long-disputed theory about stem cell populations
Adult stem cells represent a sort of blank clay from which a myriad of different cell and tissue types are...
Gene required for sperm production in blood flukes identified
Scientists can interfere with sperm production in the parasitic blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni by blocking expression of the Nuclear Factor...
Starving cancer cells by blocking their metabolism
Scientists at EPFL have found a way to starve liver cancer cells by blocking a protein that is required for...
Topical application of antiretroviral drug combination prevents transmission of (S)HIV
Findings published last week in the… view more Credit: Photos by Dr. Marc M. Baum Monrovia, CA (June 12, 2016)...
Reclaiming the immune system’s assault on tumors
One of the major obstacles with treating cancer is that tumors can conscript the body’s immune cells and make them...
Pretargeted radioimmunotherapy may eliminate colorectal cancer
Credit: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center San Diego, Calif. – An emerging cancer therapy has colorectal tumors surrounded. Presenters at...
Predicting disease outbreaks using environmental changes
A model that predicts outbreaks of zoonotic diseases — those originating in livestock or wildlife such as Ebola and Zika...
Blood test predicts success of neuroendocrine cancer therapy
San Diego, Calif. – Malignant neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are relatively rare, notoriously difficult to treat, and associated with poor long-term...
Boosting immunity in older adults: UA unmasks new infection-fighting T cells
Credit: (University of Arizona Health Sciences) TUCSON, Ariz. – Sixty-five is the age when many people retire, kick back and...
Discovery of molecular protection linked to a degenerative neuromuscular disease
Knowledge of the minute details of the proteins that are linked to diseases is crucial if we are to discover...
FDA approves vaccine for cholera
In a milestone years in the making, a vaccine to prevent cholera, invented and developed by researchers at the University...
Southern Europe risks Zika outbreaks this summer
Established Aedes-mosquito population could spread the Zika virus in Europe this summer if infected travelers introduce the virus. An analysis...
The vascular bypass revolution
Coronary or peripheral bypasses are the most frequently performed vascular operations. Although one million patients per year and around the...
Copper essential for burning fat, researchers find
Credit: Lakshmipriya Krishnamoorthy and Joseph Cotruvo Jr., UC Berkeley Is copper deficiency contributing to the obesity epidemic? Though small amounts...
Targeting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway in prostate cancer development and progression
The research article – Targeting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR Pathway in Prostate Cancer Development and Progression: Insight to Therapy, by Dr Claudio...
Scientists unpack how Toxoplasma infection is linked to neurodegenerative disease
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan parasite about five microns long, infects a third of the world’s population. Ingested...
A new way to nip AIDS in the bud
SALT LAKE CITY, June 9, 2016 – When new AIDS virus particles bud from an infected cell, an enzyme named...
Body’s own gene editing system generates leukemia stem cells
Cancer stem cells are like zombies — even after a tumor is destroyed, they can keep coming back. These cells...
Cellular ‘racetrack’ accurately clocks brain cancer cell movement
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report they have developed an experimental laboratory test that accurately clocks the “speed” of human brain...
Research showing why hierarchy exists will aid the development of artificial intelligence
New research explains why so many biological networks, including the human brain (a network of neurons), exhibit a hierarchical structure,...