Why women may age slower than men: Estrogen protects cells from wear-and-tear, study finds Women live an average of five
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New compounds ‘put cancer cells into a permanent sleep’
Experts from several research institutions across Australia have been collaborating to find a drug that would stop cancer cells from
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A promising approach to translational research on stem cells for Parkinson’s disease
A major factor underlying Parkinson’s Disease (PD) pathology is the loss of dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra, and thus
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T cells alone are sufficient to establish and maintain HIV infection in the brain
A new study by University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers has found that T cells, a type of
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Colorectal cancer: Some cells are ‘born to be bad’
This may prevent the unnecessary treatment of patients with harmless growths, say scientists from Duke University in Durham, NC, and
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Key differences in young, older people’s immune cells attributed to environment
Discoveries by Stanford University School of Medicine investigators may help explain why older people’s immune systems often don’t work so
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