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A newly developed vaccine has the ability to completely kill simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in non-human primates, according to scientists at Oregon...

British researchers have discovered that copper and copper alloys can rapidly destroy norovirus – the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis worldwide. This...

Increased caffeine intake may reduce fatty liver in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, according to a group of researchers led by Dr Paul...

According to a new study reported in the journal Retrovirology, a plant-derived compound named genistein may become an effective HIV treatment without...

According to an international team of scientists from the United States, Europe and Russia, non-coding parts of the human genome known as vlincRNAs triggered...

Scientists at the University of Ottawa, Canada, have developed rhabdovirus-derived particles that can kill blood cancer (leukemia) cells and eradicate...

According to a team of scientists led by Dr Ross Fitzgerald from the Roslin Institute and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, cows may be a source...

More than 90 per cent of human tumors are carcinomas, arising from epithelial cells that are present as continuous sheet of cells lining the cavities and...

According to a team of researchers from the United States, Russia and Spain, the discovery of a new protein, named ceramide-1 phosphate transport protein,...

Scientists from the United States and China have identified stem cells in urine that can be directed to become multiple cell types. This image shows immunofluorescent...

Scientists led by Prof Mark Anderson from the University of Iowa have found that the enzyme CaMKII (Calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase II), known for...

Rapamycin – an immunosuppressant drug reported to extend the lives of mice by up to 14 per cent – has limited anti-aging effects, according...

Herpes simplex virus 1 has an internal pressure eight times higher than a car tire, and uses it to literally blast its DNA into human cells, according...

Superresolution single-molecule fluorescence microscopy has given researchers their clearest pictures yet of how white blood immune cells, known as natural...

Researchers from Canada, France, Germany and the United States reporting in the journal Cell have found a new ground-breaking way of killing cancer cells. Scientists...

Scientists have discovered a marine microbe-derived antibiotic that has the ability to kill the deadly Anthrax bacterium Bacillus anthracis and other pathogens...

A team of researchers at Indiana University, using a three-dimensional cell culture method, has successfully transformed mouse embryonic stem cells into...

Often considered ‘one of the greatest of all men of science,’ Claude Bernard (July 12, 1813 – February 10, 1878) is the father of experimental medicine. Claude...

A multinational team of scientists led by Prof Benjamin Blencowe from the University of Toronto has identified proteins that play a key role in controlling...