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A new open-source method for bioprinting represents a breakthrough for the field of regenerative medicine, and its success stems from a special ingredient: food dye.

A U-M study is the first to define how a little-known type of cell death impacts tumor cells and immune cells.

Innovative treatment has improved the vision of a patient suffering from a rare cancer-related syndrome affecting the eye, new research in the journal JAMA Ophthalmol reports.

Flu viruses chosen for vaccines often mutate in the process of production, creating mismatches between seasonal flu viruses and the vaccine and H3N2 has been particularly problematic. But a new technology may make H3N2 vaccine development a bit easier.

Eliminating malaria — one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases — remains a critically important public health and biomedical research challenge. On April 25, the National Institutes of Health recognized World Malaria Day and committed to a reinvigorated malaria research program.

Peppermint can help with the difficulty swallowing and non-cardiac chest pain experienced by some patients with disorders of the esophagus, report investigators.

Inspired by bacterial propulsion, MIT engineers have designed tiny robots that can help drug-delivery nanoparticles push their way out of the bloodstream and into a tumor or another disease site.

By injecting cells that support blood vessel growth into muscles depleted by inactivity, researchers say they are able to help restore muscle mass lost as a result of immobility.

Residual, treatment-resistant tumor cells aren't like the original cancer cells. Instead, they lay low and switch on a horde of small signaling proteins. Understanding their behavior could lead to the discovery of druggable targets.

A simple injection that can help regrow damaged tissue has long been the dream of physicians and patients alike. A new study takes a big step towards making that dream a reality with a device that makes encapsulating cells much faster, cheaper and more effective.