Onctura, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company combating neglected and hard-to-treat cancers, today announces it has dosed the first patient in its Phase I/II clinical trial evaluating ...

Andean highlanders adapt to thin air through epigenetic gene tuning, revealing a flexible, long-term path to altitude survival.

An aggressive breast cancer lacking common drug targets, triple-negative breast cancer may be countered by oridonin, a ...

Researchers at UT San Antonio have uncovered new details about electrical signals happening within nerve cells, deepening scientists' understanding of the brain.

A team of researchers from the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) and Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO) has ...

Researchers at National Taiwan University have uncovered, for the first time at atomic resolution, how the human proteasome ...

Plexiform neurofibromas (PNF) are benign, often infiltrative tumours of the peripheral nerve sheath classically linked to ...

After a finite number of divisions, cells simply give up. As each round of replication trims their telomeres-the protective ...

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

MIT scientists found that what we see is strongly influenced by how alert or active we are. Parts of the brain responsible ...

Background Chronic stress is a known risk factor for cancer metastasis. However, the underlying mechanisms, particularly ...