Medical research

A novel bone regeneration technique with clinical potential

Although bones have the ability to regenerate and repair themselves, they are generally unable to do so when the injury is larger than a small break or chip. In a study just published in Inflammation and Regeneration, Japanese ...

Gastroenterology

Key protein helps infant mice absorb more calcium from breast milk

A key protein known as claudin-2, which lines the intestinal epithelial cells of infant mice, helps them absorb more calcium from breast milk, according to a new study published in the journal Function titled "Maternal epidermal ...

Oncology & Cancer

Origins of glioma brain cancer found to be in the epigenome

While cancers often originate from mutations and other alterations of cells' DNA, researchers in the Bernstein Laboratory at Dana-Farber and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have found that gliomas—incurable brain ...

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