Chances are you won't know you've got a staph infection until the test results come in, days after the symptoms first appear. But what if your physician could…
“Understanding how and why dormant cells in bone tissue metastasize will aid us in preventing the spread of disease, prolonging survival and improving overall…
A research team led by Wayne State University, in collaboration with Michigan State University, has identified a single gene in honeybees that separates the…
Scientists have now identified, for the first time, a way in which this decreased functional connectivity can come about. In a study published online today in…
In a similar way, a cellular waste management system constantly picks up superfluous proteins and damaged organelles in human cells and delivers them to…
This signal regulates the number of centrosomes in the cell, and its absence results in the development of pathologically altered cells. Remarkably, such…
“It's like singing a duet, but with smells instead of sounds,” said Christine Drea, a Duke University professor who supervised the study. Duke researchers…
As the research group led by Professor Silvia Arber at the University of Basel's Biozentrum and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research has…
A joint study published in Cell by the teams headed by Miquel Coll at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Institute of Molecular…
But, biologists think that vaccine adjuvants could be much better: The currently available licensed adjuvants are poor inducers of T helper cells and even…
Neurobiologists from the University of Zurich have discovered that this camouflage mechanism actually started out as sunscreen to protect the fish against DNA…
Many medications that are used to treat cancer or infectious diseases, for example, contain substances derived from bacteria and other microorganisms. Marine…
Every year around 11 million people suffer severe burns. The resulting large, deep wounds caused by burning only heal slowly; this results in lifelong scars….
Novel or highly modified genes play a major role in the development of the different castes within ant colonies. Evolutionary biologists at Johannes Gutenberg…
Currently, MSCs are being widely investigated as a potential treatment for various diseases. According to ClinicalTrials.gov, over 350 clinical trials using…
Formation of Interferon-beta (IFN-β) is increased in infections and cancer diseases. Consequently, it is often administered therapeutically. Amongst other…
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