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Tsukuba, Japan – Dioxins are environmental pollutants that stay in the body for long periods of time because they can accumulate in fat tissue. They...

Scientists at EPFL have found a way to starve liver cancer cells by blocking a protein that is required for glutamine breakdown — while leaving...

Findings published last week in the… view more Credit: Photos by Dr. Marc M. Baum Monrovia, CA (June 12, 2016) – Researchers are edging ever...

One of the major obstacles with treating cancer is that tumors can conscript the body’s immune cells and make them work for them. Researchers at...

Credit: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center San Diego, Calif. – An emerging cancer therapy has colorectal tumors surrounded. Presenters at the 2016 Annual Meeting of...

Credit: Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek An industry-driven consortium has developed a national roadmap designed to chart the path to large-scale manufacturing of cell-based therapeutics...

A model that predicts outbreaks of zoonotic diseases — those originating in livestock or wildlife such as Ebola and Zika — based on changes in...

San Diego, Calif. – Malignant neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are relatively rare, notoriously difficult to treat, and associated with poor long-term survival. According to research presented...

Credit: (University of Arizona Health Sciences) TUCSON, Ariz. – Sixty-five is the age when many people retire, kick back and take it easy. And so...

Knowledge of the minute details of the proteins that are linked to diseases is crucial if we are to discover therapeutic targets and thus pave...

In a milestone years in the making, a vaccine to prevent cholera, invented and developed by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s...

Established Aedes-mosquito population could spread the Zika virus in Europe this summer if infected travelers introduce the virus. An analysis of temperatures, vectorial capacity, basic...

Coronary or peripheral bypasses are the most frequently performed vascular operations. Although one million patients per year and around the world, undergo this intervention, its...

Credit: Lakshmipriya Krishnamoorthy and Joseph Cotruvo Jr., UC Berkeley Is copper deficiency contributing to the obesity epidemic? Though small amounts of copper are essential to...

The research article – Targeting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR Pathway in Prostate Cancer Development and Progression: Insight to Therapy, by Dr Claudio Festuccia (University of L’Aquila, Italy)...