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Current anticancer treatments essentially target the primary tumor cells that proliferate quickly, but do not effectively eliminate specific cancer cells able to adapt to existing treatments and which exhibit high metastatic potential. Yet metastases are […]

It’s not entirely understood why some children are born with orofacial clefts, such as cleft lip or palate. But a new study suggests a genetic clue may be found in a rare breed of hunting […]

The authors of an editorial published in the American Journal of Hematology, claim that “generative Artificial Intelligence can be exploited to produce fraudulent scientific images, either from scratch or by modifying existing visual materials to […]

Researchers have developed a new treatment formula—known as GS-1—that could reduce the symptoms and contagiousness of the viruses behind shingles and cold sores.This post was originally published on this site

A study published April 12 in Nature Communications identifies a protein that helps prevent excessive scarring. The protein, called fibromodulin (FMOD) forms a complex of molecules with interleukin 1β that stops myofibroblasts from forming excessive […]

Antimicrobial resistance, in which germs like bacteria and fungi no longer respond to medicines, is a rising global threat. When antibiotics and other drugs become ineffective, infections can become difficult or impossible to treat, leading […]

Microscopic command centers in our bodies called primary cilia—once thought irrelevant—could be hidden switches powering cancer growth and drug resistance, new research reveals.This post was originally published on this site

Patients with severe dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, or EB, have skin so fragile, the slightest touch can lead to blistering and, eventually, large, open wounds that never heal, causing immense pain.This post was originally published on […]

During the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that people from historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups were more likely than non-Hispanic white people to be infected, be hospitalized and die […]