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IMAGE: UI researchers are reminding US doctors to watch for two vector-borne and potentially life-threatening diseases — Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis — that can be...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Some cells excite the immune system. Others soothe it. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are one type of soothing cell,...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study indicates that cancer patients and survivors have a ready weapon against fatigue and...

Credit: MIPT's Press Office An international research team including Vasiliy Ramensky, a member of the MIPT Life Sciences Center, has unraveled genetic characteristics that increase...

Credit: John Soares/Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON – (April 24, 2017) – More than 660,000 people in the United States suffer from end-stage kidney disease, which...

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Institute scientists have revealed a potent inflammatory molecule released by dying cells triggers inflammation during necroptosis,...

Credit: On Target Laboratories image On Target Laboratories Inc., a privately held biotechnology company that is developing tumor-targeted fluorescent dyes to improve cancer surgery, has...

Credit: © International Osteoporosis Foundation Increased risk of fracture has been shown to be one of the complications arising from longstanding diabetes. With the worldwide...

Credit: Francisco Diaz lab Two Penn State researchers have received a grant through the Grand Challenges Explorations program — an initiative funded by the Bill...

Fairfax, Va., November 23, 2015 – A new template published by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) standardizes and streamlines the creation of patient-focused...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine During a heart attack, blood stops flowing into the heart; starved for oxygen, part of the heart muscle dies. The...

Credit: Helen Jarvie The quality of our rivers and lakes could be placed under pressure from harmful levels of soluble phosphorus, despite well-intended measures to...

Credit: G.L. Kohuth EAST LANSING, Mich. — A new Michigan State University study is helping to answer a pressing question among scientists of just how...

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer shows that protein cytokeratin 5 (CK5), known to be...

Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, August 9, 2017–Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital have identified how natural killer cells in the mouse placenta can...