Health

Study: Orange juice component may help combat obesity

The equivalent of just two and a half glasses of orange juice a day could reverse obesity and reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes—a benefit Western researchers attribute to nobiletin, a molecule found in sweet ...

Medical research

Making it easier to make stem cells

The process researchers use to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)—a special type of stem cell that can be made in the lab from any type of adult cell—is time consuming and inefficient. To speed things up, ...

Oncology & Cancer

Discovery of an embryonic switch for cancer stem cell generation

An international team of scientists, headed by researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, report that decreases in a specific group of proteins trigger changes in the cancer microenvironment ...

Oncology & Cancer

Scientists target protein to lower risk of prostate cancer spread

Targeting a specific protein that is often overexpressed in prostate cancer can help prevent or delay the disease from spreading to other parts of the body, according to a study led by Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators.

Oncology & Cancer

Researchers uncover up to 100 potential drug targets for cancer

Protein researchers from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen have used mass spectrometry-based proteomics to uncover a number of proteins that could play a critical role ...

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