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Researchers at Texas A&M University have uncovered a key element of joint cartilage regrowth, which brings them one step closer to regrowing human limbs.This post was originally published on this site

Researchers from the University of Sheffield, working in collaboration with Fiocruz-Bahia in Brazil, are shedding new light on a mysterious process known as tumor cell cannibalism, where one cancer cell engulfs another in order to […]

A newly developed mouse model enables real-time visualization of RNA Polymerase II (RNAP2) during DNA transcription, as reported by researchers from Science Tokyo. The team engineered mice to produce a fluorescent antibody that binds specifically […]

Every second, millions of blood cells are produced in the human body, and about 90% of the cells replaced daily are blood cells. These include red blood cells essential for oxygen transport, platelets for blood […]

Risk prediction tools might help identify patients at the highest risk of overdose and death after a “before medically advised” (BMA) hospital discharge, according to new research in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.This post was […]

According to researcher Anne Robertson, the bladder is not considered a particularly glamorous organ, despite hosting many of the same physiological elements and processes as the heart.This post was originally published on this site

About 170,000 women in the United States are living with metastatic breast cancer—or cancer that has spread to other organs—and eventually leads to death.This post was originally published on this site

On a cutting surface inside a Scaife Hall laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, Julia Kofler examines a brain, pointing out its weight, tiny specks of fatty plaque and other features visible even to the […]

It can be challenging to identify which patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) will most benefit from conservative care rather than initiating dialysis.This post was originally published on this site

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to […]