The omentum is an important immune organ that serves as a first line of defense against toxins and infection, according to a review paper published online...
A study led by University of Tasmania researchers Cesar Tovar and Gregory Woods has shown that immunotherapy can cure Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii)...
A team of scientists at Michigan State University has discovered that a potential new drug, called CCG-203971, reduces the spread of melanoma cells by...
Capsaicin, a compound found in peppers of the genus Capsicum, inhibits the growth of breast cancer cells, according to a team of researchers in Germany.
Capsaicin...
A study by researchers at Harvard Medical School, Indiana University and Brown University reports an association between higher alcohol intake and incidence...
A new study published in the journal Molecular Cell reports that arecoline, an active compound found in areca nuts, has anti-cancer properties.
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Americans are increasingly at risk of insufficient sun exposure, according to a landmark study published this week in the Journal of Dermato-Endocrinology.
According...
An international group of researchers has discovered that two regions in the genomes of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) are changing in response...
A team of paleontologists led by Dr. Patrick Randolph-Quinney from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in Johannesburg, South Africa,...
Beverages surpassing 149 degrees Fahrenheit (65 degrees Celsius) may increase the risk of tumors in the esophagus, which resides in the chest area below...
Cancer risk has been found to increase with height in both genders, says a large, long-term study from Sweden.
The large-scale study discovers link between...
Chromosomes play an active role in animal cell division, reports a study published in the journal Nature.
Until now, it was believed that chromosomes only...
Dr Yang Wang and colleagues from Vanderbilt University have shown a novel mechanism of cancer development through EGFR negative regulator, LRIG1.
LRIG1...
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...
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,...
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.
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Dr Bhuminder Singh from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and his colleagues have announced the discovery of a new mechanism for the development of...
