One of the biggest challenges in cancer therapy is being able to sufficiently deliver chemotherapy…
Month: September 2016
Key requirement for regulatory T cell function discovered
A key requirement for the function of regulatory T cells—immune cells that play a critical…
Researcher finds gene that reduces female mosquitoes
Placing a particular Y chromosome gene on the autosomes of Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes — a…
Drug restores hair growth in patients with alopecia areata
Seventy-five percent of patients with an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss had significant hair…
New research delimits the possible causes of celiac disease
The amount of gluten could be a more important clue than breast-feeding or the timing…
Edible crickets can be reared on weeds and cassava plant tops
To become a sustainable alternative to meat, reared crickets must be fed feeds other than…
The scroll from En-Gedi: A high-tech recovery mission
Archeologists have further unlocked writings in the ancient En-Gedi scroll — the first severely damaged,…
Popeye was right: There’s energy in that spinach
Using a simple membrane extract from spinach leaves, researchers have developed a cell that produces…
Testing Ecopipam’s effectiveness in treating stuttering
Stuttering, an interruption in the flow of speech, affects about three million Americans. Currently, no…
New insights into potent cancer tumor suppressor gene
TP53 is one of the most potent genes in the human genome at preventing cancer…