Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Team makes Zika drug breakthrough

A team of researchers from Florida State University, Johns Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health has found existing drug compounds that can both stop Zika from replicating in the body and from damaging ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New compounds have potential to combat Lyme disease

When physicians diagnose Lyme disease, they usually prescribe standard antibiotics—and for many patients, that's enough. But for 10 to 20 percent of patients, the disease persists, causing joint paint, neurological difficulties ...

Oncology & Cancer

Illuminating the broad spectrum of disease

In a paper published in Nature Biotechnology, researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute describe a new method that dramatically simplifies an arduous experimental process ...

Oncology & Cancer

Promising target for new drugs found in pancreatic cancer cells

Pancreatic cancer is extremely deadly and often has a poor prognosis. Ranked as the fourth deadliest cancer in the U.S. and poised to move up within the next few years, pancreatic cancer is very difficult to detect in its ...

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