Credit: Manuel Fankhauser and Maria Broggi/EPFL Many cancers, such as melanoma, are known to metastasize and spread by expanding nearby lymphatic vessels. This process, lymphangiogenesis,...
A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team has identified a potential strategy for improving the efficacy of angiogenesis inhibitors, drugs that help fight cancer by...
Credit: GEM Hospital A randomized clinical trial has compared key-hole (laparoscopic) surgery and open surgery in pancreatic cancer patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy, or the Whipple proced..
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- A woman's choice of surgeon plays a significant role in whether she's likely to receive an increasingly popular...
Attending surgeons can have a strong influence on whether a patient undergoes contralateral prophylactic mastectomy after a diagnosis of breast cancer, according to a study...
Credit: Xiaohu Xia/Michigan Tech The most common test strip people might think of for diagnosis is a home pregnancy test. Pregnant women have steadily increasing...
Immunotherapy drugs could help some breast cancer patients based on the genetic changes in their tumours, researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their...
Charity Action on Hearing Loss is supporting the biotechnology firm Otomagnetics, which today announces an important breakthrough towards preventing hearing loss caused by a widely...
Credit: Tran, Jassby, and Schwabe Conventional wisdom dictates water conservation can only benefit communities affected by drought. But researchers at the University of California, Riverside...
Credit: Stuart Wolpert/UCLA UCLA physicists have pioneered a method for creating a unique new molecule that could eventually have applications in medicine, food science and...
Credit: Johan Bodell/Chalmers University of Technology A pioneering method, developed at Chalmers University of Technology, has demonstrated its potential in a large study, showing that...
Credit: UBC Okanagan An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but the mold on it could make you sick. Rhiannon Wallace, a PhD...
Credit: Xu D. et al., Plant and Cell Physiology, September 1, 2017 The molecular mechanism behind root regeneration after root cutting in plants has been...
(BOSTON) -- The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to leverage its human Organ-on-a-Chip (Organ...
Credit: Florida Institute of Technology MELBOURNE, Fla.. -- Though it may look haphazard, the network of intertwining plant roots snaking through the soil actually represents...
