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Credit: UC San Diego Health Macrophages are immune cells that are supposed to protect the body from infection by viruses and bacteria. Yet Zika virus...

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Sept. 6, 2018 -- As a veterinarian, Dr. Carolyn Duregger is familiar with the telltale signs of canine melanoma. So when she...

Credit: Dr. Michele Ardolino and Dr. Brian Weist Immune checkpoint inhibitors are revolutionizing the treatment of cancer, but new research challenges the central dogma of...

Imagine a major storm hits your neighborhood and the government offers to purchase homes with "a history of flood damage." Your basement is completely flooded....

Immunotherapies harness a patient's own immune system to target and destroy cancer cells. One type of immunotherapy, immune checkpoint inhibitors, blocks the mechanisms that cancer...

Credit: Suddher BhimiReddy and Kiran Bhaganagar It was morning in Khan Sheikhoun, a small rural town in the north of Syria. Residents went about their...

Credit: Photo by Kevin Patrick Robbins/McMaster University. Hamilton, ON (September 10, 2018) - McMaster University researchers have provided evidence of new cancerous cells they have...

Credit: Tane Sinclair-Taylor An international team of researchers has mapped Nemo's genome, providing the research community with an invaluable resource to decode the response of...

Among adolescents and young adults with cancer, social support was the most decisive factor associated with life satisfaction. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed...

A recent Finnish study conducted at the University of Jyväskylä showed that adolescents with better aerobic fitness have more compliant arteries than their lower fit...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON - Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown how BRCA-associated protein 1 (BAP1) serves...

C. David Allis and Michael Grunstein for discoveries elucidating how gene expression is influenced by chemical modification of histones--the proteins that package DNA within chromosomes...

UC San Francisco researchers have discovered how a mutation in a gene regulator called the TERT promoter -- the third most common mutation among all...

A drug used to treat inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis and vasculitis as well as to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients has been identified as...

Paris, France, 10 September 2018 - Individualised therapies that target the specific genetic features of tumours have the potential to transform cancer diagnosis, treatment and...