High-fat diets can cause normal liver tissue to behave like tumor tissue
Normal, non-cancerous liver tissue can act like tumor tissue when exposed to a diet high in fat, linking diet and
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Tumor suppressor gene also essential for hormone-controlled development, tissue regeneration and stress-response
Adult progenitor cells are present in the Drosophila fly as early as its larvae stage. These cells are the only
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Neuropeptide reduces epileptic seizures in human brain tissue
One challenge facing researchers who study brain diseases is that for understandable reasons it is difficult to obtain human brain
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Your biopsy tissue could be helping important cancer research
If you’ve ever had a tumor removed or biopsy taken, you may have contributed to life-saving research. Though you probably
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Multiple sclerosis: Endogenous retrovirus HERV-W key to nerve tissue damage
Early disease stages of multiple sclerosis (MS) are primarily characterized by immune cell infiltration of the central nervous system (CNS).
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Rheumatoid arthritis: Scientists stop tissue damage
These were the conclusions that scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine in California came to after demonstrating how an
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Regrowing dental tissue with stem cells from baby teeth
Sometimes kids trip and fall, and their teeth take the hit. Nearly half of children suffer some injury to a
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New study confirms higher cancer rate in women with dense breast tissue
Researchers using automated breast density measurements have found that women with mammographically dense breast tissue have higher recall and biopsy
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