Why do some people with a genetic mutation associated with leukemia remain healthy, while others with the same mutation develop the blood cancer? In a new study published in Blood, scientists from the USC Stem Cell laboratory ...
Mar 23, 2023
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Two new discoveries led by Cedars-Sinai investigators show stem cell therapies can help accelerate and promote the healing of bone and tendon injuries.
Feb 27, 2023
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High drug prices are not justified by industry's spending on research and development (R&D), argue experts in The BMJ today.
Feb 15, 2023
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Imagine not being able to stay outdoors during winter. Or having to put on gloves to open the fridge. New knowledge and better treatment give hope to people who suffer from a rare cold disease.
Feb 7, 2023
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For anyone who has taken Biology 101, the concept of apoptosis—programmed cell death—is taught early in the course. You can't understand the life cycle of a cell without learning how they die.
More than 155,000 Americans who shared their DNA for science are about to learn something in return: Do they have some particularly worrisome genes?
Dec 13, 2022
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Researchers from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm, St. James's Hospital Dublin and Trinity are getting closer to understanding what makes some people so vulnerable to COVID-19-induced illness, which in turn may guide the development ...
Dec 1, 2022
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Survivors of abuse and trauma are vastly more likely than other people to develop alcohol use disorder (AUD); according to some estimates, as many as three-quarters of people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) report ...
Nov 18, 2022
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Medicines that have been approved to medicate one ailment are being repurposed to treat others, saving lives and giving fresh hope to millions saddled with disease.
Oct 31, 2022
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While humans evolved over a period of approximately 6 million years, breakthroughs in modern medicine as we know it today got going only in the 19th and 20th centuries. So how did humans successfully survive through millions ...
Jul 27, 2022
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