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Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, lead researcher based at the MRC Cancer Unit at the University of CambridgeScientists have discovered that oesophageal cancer can be classified into...

A new technique invented at MIT can precisely measure the growth of many individual cells simultaneously. “The device provides new insights into how cells grow...

Streptococcus Bacteria Credit: WikimediaBiochemists at the University of California San Diego have uncovered patterns in the outer protein coat of group A Streptococcus that could...

A new study by investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in collaboration with researchers at the University of York and Leeds in the UK and...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Maintaining proper nutrition is an important part of cancer therapy. Patients are urged to consult their doctors before making any change to their...

Credit: Vetmeduni Vienna Hibernation has long been considered the secret behind the relatively long lifespan of the edible dormouse. However, a team of researchers from...

The cause of a disease that targets blood vessels in the brain – leading to multiple debilitating symptoms and, often, to early death – has...

Scientists in recent years have made great strides in the quest to understand the brain by using implanted probes to explore how specific neural circuits...

Scientists at the University of Basel, ETH Zurich, and NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering have developed an artificial metalloenzyme that catalyses a reaction inside of cells...

Steven Lipshultz, MD, of Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of MichiganA potent chemotherapy drug can be life saving for children...

Lung Cancer Credit: WikimediaPATIENTS with non-small cell lung cancer which has spread to the brain could be spared whole brain radiotherapy as it makes little...

Last March, the artificial intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo beat Korean Go champion LEE Se-Dol at the Asian board game. “The game was quite tight, but...

Credit: Ajayan Group/Rice University HOUSTON – (Sept. 2, 2016) – Flakes of graphene welded together into solid materials may be suitable for bone implants, according...

Credit: CupeFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Sept. 2, 2016 — A new study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) details the design and validation of a...

A depiction of the double helical structure of DNA. Its four coding units (A, T, C, G) are color-coded in pink, orange, purple and yellow....