New dual-action cancer-killing virus
Scientists have equipped a virus that kills carcinoma cells with a protein so it can also target and kill adjacent
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Extracellular vesicles help pass information between cells and onto offspring: Their cargo can carry molecular signals, signs of disease, and even effects of stress
New studies reveal that small, membrane-bound particles transported between cells have wide-ranging and long-term effects in the brain and throughout
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Rose geranium oil may ease common painful nasal symptoms linked to cancer treatment: Small study builds on anecdotal evidence, but larger scale research needed, say authors
The findings build on anecdotal evidence for the use of rose geranium oil to treat nasal vestibulitis, which affects the
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Cannabis pain relief without the ‘high’: Mechanism of cannabidiol for safe pain relief without side effects
In the wake of cannabis legalization, a team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
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New CRISPR tool opens up more of the genome for editing: Enzyme can target almost half of the genome’s ‘zipcodes’ and could enable editing of many more disease-specific mutations
The genome editing system CRISPR has become a hugely important tool in medical research, and could ultimately have a significant
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What pneumococcus says to make you sick
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have identified a molecule that plays a key role in bacterial communication and infection. Their findings
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Immune cells help older muscles heal like new: Macrophages enable regeneration of lab-grown adult muscle tissue
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have found a critical component for growing self-healing muscle tissues from adult muscle — the
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Science learns from its mistakes too
Scientific studies should always be published irrespective of their result. That is one of the conclusions of a research project
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Cell biology: The role of the alkaline phosphatase (Alpl) gene in preventing premature bone ageing
Mutations of the alkaline phosphatase (ALPL) gene in the liver, bone and kidney can cause hypophosphatasia (HPP) and early-onset bone
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Green tea compound helps siRNA slip inside cells
Drinking green tea has been linked to health benefits ranging from cardiovascular disease prevention to weight loss. Although many of
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