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Researchers have developed a way to use Crispr to target the RNA in cells instead of DNA. If this technique proves successful, it could lead to better methods to modify the proteins in cells, or even eliminate cancer cel...

Whether you are alone or with friends can affect your level of wisdom or wise reasoning, according to a new Canadian study. Wisdom is believed to be promoted by certain situations.

Immunotherapy is a great advance in cancer treatment but up to a quarter of lung cancer patients are not eligible for this therapy. Autoimmune disorders have something to do with the risks.

Older people are known to take fewer risks compared to when they were younger. Scientists believe this could be influenced by a reduction in the levels of dopamine in their brain.

The creation of a completely synthetic human genome may soon be within the reach of genetic scientists. Will this development yield greater developments in medicine or a new age of eugenics?

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) The immune checkpoint blockade drug nivolumab reduced tumor burden in 24.4 percent of patients with metastatic bladder cancer, regardless of whether their tumors had a b...

(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) A new drug that harnesses the immune system to attack tumors is highly effective against advanced bladder cancer, according to the results of an inter...

A significant proportion of lung cancer patients also have autoimmune disease, which may make them unsuitable for increasingly popular immunotherapy treatments, a team of researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center's ...

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have found that adding increasing doses of an approved Type 2 diabetes drug, metformin, to a chemotherapy and radiation treatment regimen in head and n...

California-based Clif Bar & Company is issuing a voluntary recall of three of its products because of a possible risk of contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The bacteria can cause serious diseases in pregnant wome...

Each day, one child is mistaking laundry tabs for sweets and eating them, a new report has revealed. We list down a few simple tips to keep your child safe from poison.

Zika virus may be transmitted via oral sex or kissing, a new report has found. The public is cautioned about the disease's mode of transmission.

A clinical trial conducted by Cancer Research UK has shown that combination therapy for pancreatic cancer will improve survival rates. The treatment will become the standard therapy for pancreatic cancer patients.

(University of Cambridge) Women are almost twice as likely to experience anxiety as men, according to a review of existing scientific literature, led by the University of Cambridge. The study also found that people from ...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Advances that could change gynecologic cancer standard-of-care treatments are the centerpiece of key studies being presented by researchers from The University of Texas ...

Researchers discovered E.coli genes that can survive the temperature recommended by federal authorities for cooking beef. This means ground meat-based food items need to be cooked at higher cooking temperatures to keep t...

Older adults with undiagnosed dementia are more likely to engage in unsafe activities, a new study found. Because their families and friends are unaware of the medical condition, these people are left in risky situations...