People with blood type AB may be more likely to develop memory loss in later years than people with other blood types, according to a study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. AB is the least common bloo ...
The seriousness of disease often results from the strength of the immune response, rather than with the virus, itself. Turning down that response, rather than attacking the virus, might be a better way to reduce that severity, said Juliet Morrison of ...
Cancer cells get drug cocktail delivered by nanodaisies Biomedical engineering researchers have developed daisy-shaped, nanoscale structures that are made predominantly of anti-cancer drugs and are capable of introducing a “cocktail” of multiple drug ...
Under stress from chemotherapy or radiation, some cancer cells dodge death by consuming a bit of themselves, allowing them to essentially sleep through treatment and later awaken as tougher, resistant disease. Interfering with a single cancer-prom ...
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that a substance called Vacquinol-1 makes cells from glioblastoma, the most aggressive type of brain tumor, literally explode. When mice were given the substance, which can be given in ta ...