Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Researchers close in on preeclampsia cure

Researchers from Western and Brown University have made groundbreaking progress towards identifying the root cause and potential therapy for preeclampsia.

Genetics

Eye atlas could guide targeted therapies in blindness prevention

Glaucoma and macular degeneration cause blindness in millions of people every year. Hundreds of genes have been implicated for increasing susceptibility to the diseases, and such genes are often starting points for therapies ...

Immunology

How being in space impairs astronauts' immune systems

A new study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has examined how T cells of the immune system are affected by weightlessness. The results, which are published in the journal Science Advances, could explain ...

Oncology & Cancer

Rethinking and rigor brings promising protein for cancer therapy

The elucidation of the role of a critical protein in cell biology is paving the way for alternative cancer treatments. By refuting recent challenges that threatened to invalidate their work, a team of KAUST researchers investigating ...

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