Medications

Inhalation drug may prevent severe pneumonia

Overly active immune cells are often behind lung damage in diseases such as COVID-19. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed an RNA agent for a lung spray that slows the activity of these cells, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Scientists begin to untangle how COVID-19 affects brain cells

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown in lab-based experiments that variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can affect the blood-brain barrier and damage brain cells in different ways. This ...

Oncology & Cancer

Team discovers broken 'brake' of cancer mutation machine

Loss of a gene known as SYNCRIP in prostate cancer tumors unleashes cellular machinery that creates random mutations throughout the genome that drive resistance to targeted treatments, a team led by UT Southwestern Medical ...

Oncology & Cancer

Researchers discover how malignant melanoma eludes immune cells

Malignant melanoma, a dangerous type of skin cancer, deploys an elegant molecular mechanism to evade natural immune responses and the therapies intended to boost them, according to new work led by scientists at the Herbert ...

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