These football-shaped particles seem to be better than the typical basketball-shaped particles at teaching immune cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells…
Researchers at McMaster University are addressing the crisis in drug resistance with a novel approach to find new antibiotics.”We have developed technology to…
Bladder cancer represents a serious public health problem in many countries, especially in Spain, where 11,200 new cases are recorded every year, one of the…
The researchers—led by Daniel Bauer, MD, PhD, and Stuart Orkin, MD, of Dana-Farber/Boston Children's—reported their findings today in Science.Prior work by…
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new way to parse and understand how special proteins called “master…
An international consortium co-led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Australia has…
Plant and animal cells carry most of their genes on chromosomes in the nucleus, separated from the rest of the cell. However, they also contain a small number…
The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has enhanced a polymer material to make it far more impermeable to pressurized gas and far lighter than the metal in tanks…
Normally muscles contract in order to support the body, but in a rare condition known as cataplexy the body's muscles “fall asleep” and become involuntarily…
One of the risks of any large operation is the occurrence of blood clots. To prevent this, patients are routinely given the anticoagulant heparin or related…
Native to the Australian territories of Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, millions of the crabs start rolling across the island roads and…
But, with the support of funding from NASA, researchers in LSU’s Department of Biological Sciences tried something almost unheard of: studying microbial…
A team of scientists from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and their collaborators from…
The innate immune response to bacterial, viral and parasitic infections is the main topic of this year's “North-Regio-Day on Infection” meeting, short NoRDI…
Case Western Reserve University researchers today published findings that point to a promising discovery for the treatment and prevention of prion diseases,…
“Our allergy inhibition project is innovative and significant because we brought a novel molecular design approach to selectively inhibit mast cell…