Inflammatory disorders

Link found between cell death and inflammatory disease

(Medical Xpress)—A team of Melbourne researchers has shown a recently discovered type of cell death called necroptosis could be the underlying cause of inflammatory disease.

Medical research

Plague alters cell death to kill host

Northwestern Medicine scientists are continuing to unravel the molecular changes that underlie one of the world's deadliest and most infamous respiratory infections.

Oncology & Cancer

Finding a target for tumor suppression

One of the hopes for victory against cancer hinges on naturally-occurring proteins whose job is to make their host cell die.

Ophthalmology

Same cell death pathway involved in three forms of blindness

Gene therapies developed by University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine researchers have worked to correct different forms of blindness. While effective, the downside to these approaches to vision rescue is that ...

Pediatrics

Study shows that parenting improves with coaching via cell phone

(Medical Xpress)—In the first randomized trial of the effects of cell phone use, University of Kansas and Notre Dame researchers found that when parenting coaches texted and called mothers who had participated in a home-based ...

Oncology & Cancer

Evolutionary theory of cancer overlooks genetic research

The history of biology is peppered with invaluable contributions by physics and physicists. Even if we leave aside the argument that it's all just physics anyway, theoretical and practical biology leans heavily on our physics ...

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