Running vs weights: which is better for keeping cells ‘young’
Aerobic activities like jogging and interval training can make our cells biologically younger, according to a noteworthy new experiment. Weight
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Study tests new vaccine for precancerous cervical cells
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is participating in an international study to determine the effectiveness of a new therapeutic vaccine for
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‘Chemo brain’ caused by malfunction in three types of brain cells, study finds
More than half of cancer survivors suffer from cognitive impairment from chemotherapy that lingers for months or years after the
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How some heart cells cope with high blood pressure
Individual cells within the same heart cope differently with high blood pressure, according to a study in human cells and
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Turning cells against pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer has a grim prognosis. It is usually detected after the disease has spread, and chemotherapy tends to do
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Testing cells for cancer drug resistance
Biophysicists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have demonstrated that Raman microscopy can be used to detect the resistance of tumour cells
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New study finds ‘timing cells’ in the brain may underlie an animal’s inner clock
Are you taking your time when feeding your pet? Fluffy and Fido are on to you—and they can tell when
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Mutation in common protein triggers tangles, chaos inside brain cells
A pioneer in the study of neural cells revealed today (Oct. 23, 2018) how a single mutation affecting the most
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Deafness could be reversed in a scientific breakthrough
Could deafness be reversed? Scientists re-grow damaged hair cells that have been killed off by age or noise inside the
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Clues to lupus’s autoimmune origins in precursor cells
In the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus or SLE, the immune system produces antibodies against parts of the body itself.
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