Osaka, Japan – Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the deadliest cancers worldwide, with a 5-year survival rate of less than 10%. Many...
Bats have acquired remarkable traits throughout their evolution. They’re the only mammals that can fly, and they live much longer than other animals...
A groundbreaking, easy-to-use 3D printable finger prosthesis created by a recent University of Houston graduate could offer amputees a low-cost solution...
Charles Darwin knew the evidence from fossils contradicted evolution. Researchers are still trying to work out the problem today.
In a first look at Amgen’s experimental PRMT5 inhibitor, roughly 16% of patients with various cancers saw their tumors shrink by at least 30%, equating...
Advanced artificial intelligence is new, but a similar idea has been around for hundreds of years: the power of a just-right sequence of numbers, letters...
Scientists have published the most detailed catalog yet of the human brain’s billions of cells and how their genes are used, revealing new clues about...
LA JOLLA (October 12, 2023)—Salk Institute researchers, as part of a larger collaboration with research teams around the world, analyzed more than half...
A new study has unravelled a crucial link between how cancer cells cope with replication stress and the role of Taurine Upregulated Gene 1 (TUG1). By...
Horseshoe crabs play a unique role in medicine, but they’re also ecologically important in their home waters along the Atlantic coast. Can regulators...
This fatal error by automakers is affecting sales.
Evolutionary biologists have for the first time decoded the genetic lineage of a famous killer whale and a pod that once worked alongside whale hunters...
Artificial intelligence, AI, which finds patterns in complex biological data could eventually contribute to the development of individually tailored healthcare....
Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial...
It is now apparent that the mass-produced artefacts of technology in our increasingly densely populated world – whether electronic devices, cars, batteries,...
The human body has been making antivirals for eons, long before scientists did. A protein in your cells called viperin produces molecules that work similarly...
In releasing second-quarter results in August, Prime Medicine conveyed the possibility of a first trial for its gene editing technology next year by publicly...
Once thought to be the trash can of the cell, a little bubble of cellular stuff called the midbody remnant is actually packing working genetic material...
The world is full of good ideas, but only some of them become viable and real. Credit: Please give photo credit to University of Houston. The...
Patients with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency disorder (SCID-X1), sometimes called “bubble boy disease,” are born with a defective gene that...
The human brain is a tangled highway of wires emanating from nearly 100 billion neurons, all of which communicate across trillions of junctions called...
Mindelo/Leipzig. The international Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO) is being further expanded: The President of the Republic of Cabo Verde José...
African Americans have long been known to be at increased risk of kidney disease due to a dangerous genetic mutation that creates a hole in the...
“Several ongoing trials hope to further elucidate the role of lurbinectedin in highgrade neuroendocrine neoplasms […]” Credit: 2023 Bhamidipati and...
Argentinians will vote in a new president on Oct. 22, 2023. But the front-runner’s plans to slash health funding might find resistance.
The unusual candidacy of former President Donald Trump has made election polling especially appealing, more than a year from the election. But consumers...
A massive research collaboration between 13 pharmaceutical companies and the UK Biobank has uncovered a trove of new leads for drug targets and diagnostic...
After stepping into the CEO post for the first time about two years ago, taking over the helm of “tissue therapeutics” startup Satellite Bio, Dave...
A finer glass tube and a more exacting technique with a refined procedure can reduce the likelihood of transmitting mitochondrial disease during assisted...
Searching for new ways to block the growth of cancer cells is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Tumor cells rely on thousands of...