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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 […]

A research team at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, has identified a previously unknown cellular mechanism crucial to the replication of coronaviruses: c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) is activated during infection with human coronavirus HCoV-229E and mediates […]

A study by University of Manchester scientists has revealed some of the mechanisms which may explain why older mice are more likely to give birth to offspring that have not grown to their full potential […]

The ABC Global Alliance today launched the Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) Global Decade Report 2015–2025—a global assessment revealing a decade of remarkable scientific progress that has transformed ABC care for some patients in some countries, […]

Translation factors eIF1A and eIF5B are key repressors of an abnormal protein translation process linked to neurodegenerative disorders, as reported by researchers from Science Tokyo.This post was originally published on this site

The rise in virtual research since the COVID-19 pandemic has created opportunities for researchers to expand and diversify clinical trials, but it has also opened up avenues for fraudulent participation in these studies.This post was […]

Mental disorders that cause physical symptoms are not included in a major health trends study, despite them impacting as many as 1 in 21 adults, researchers have found.This post was originally published on this site