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Credit: Alex Holt/NIST Cone snails have inspired humans for centuries. Coastal communities have often traded their beautiful shells like money and put them in jewelry....

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) A team of developmental biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by Dominique Alfandari, with others at MIT, report...

Credit: Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (Boston) -- Cancer researchers have come to understand that generating human tumors in mice by injecting cancer cell...

Credit: Hideyuki Tsukagoshi Biopsies of pulmonary lesions are essential for increasing the accuracy of diagnosis and treatment for respiratory illnesses such as lung cancer. Currently,...

PharmaMar (MSE:PHM) will present the final efficacy and safety data obtained from the Phase I/II trial combining PM1183 (lurbinectedin) with doxorubicin in relapsed small-cell lung...

Newton, Mass. (Oct. 10, 2017) - Exposure to environmental chemicals, especially early in life, is an important contributing factor in the development of breast cancer,...

(Boston)--Hui Feng, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology and medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), is the recipient of a four-year, $792,000 grant...

TAMPA, Fla. (Oct. 10, 2017) - Developing new drugs to treat cancer can be a painstaking process taking over a decade from start to Food...

(University of Seville) The experts indicate a new way via which cells can respond to chemotherapy. This knowledge has to help constitute the basis for...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Surgeons at Penn Medicine are using a fluorescent dye that makes cancerous cells glow in hopes of identifying suspicious lymph...

CLEVELAND -- A new study published in the Oct. 9 issue of the journal Nature Medicine demonstrates, for the first time, that glioblastoma (GBM), the...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center There are two important categories of genes involved in cancer development, oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. When oncogenes gain...

Research being done at Rochester Institute of Technology to refine lab-on-chip devices--highly sophisticated laboratories on microchips--will provide more detailed and timely information to detect dis..

Credit: Illustration by Meghan Murphy. Scientists may finally understand how the rabies virus can drastically change its host's behavior to help spread the disease, which...

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory: Ivanpah solar flux measurement Excess solar flux could be harnessed and used to generate additional electricity at a tower CSP plant,...