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Sugar in the form of blood glucose provides essential energy for cells. When its usual dietary source — carbohydrates — is scarce, the liver can...

Dr. Schultz is a Senior Clinician Scientist and Head of the Childhood Cancer & Blood Research (Vancouver, BC – June 16, 2016) A new study...

In summer 2011, University of Colorado Cancer Center investigators Joaquín Espinosa, PhD, and Matthew Galbraith, PhD, taught a summer symposium on gene expression at Cold...

Geneticists from KU Leuven, Belgium, have shown that tumour protein TP53 knows exactly where to bind to our DNA to prevent cancer. Once bound to...

Researchers at the Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE) at UT Dallas are working to develop an affordable electronic nose that can be used in...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (June 15, 2016) — As men and women grow older, their chances for coronary heart disease also increase. Atherosclerosis is a condition in...

Naked mole-rats (NMR) are the longest-living rodent species and exhibit ‘extraordinary’ resistance to cancer. Mole-rats live up to 30 years, 10 times longer than mice,...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA–When the body is fighting an invading pathogen, white blood cells–including T cells–must respond. Now, Salk Institute researchers have imaged how...

Adult stem cells represent a sort of blank clay from which a myriad of different cell and tissue types are molded and as such are...

Scientists can interfere with sperm production in the parasitic blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni by blocking expression of the Nuclear Factor Y-B gene (NF-YB). The new...

A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Rowland Institute at Harvard University have used a specialized nanoprobe developed by the Harvard/Rowland...

Credit: Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed an electrical graphene chip capable of detecting...

Credit: (Purdue University photo by John Underwood) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A new type of electronic sensor that might be used to quickly detect and...

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...