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A Ludwig Cancer Research study has uncovered a cellular mechanism by which melanomas that fail to respond to checkpoint blockade may be made susceptible to such immunotherapies.

Children with a history of prior dengue virus infection had a significantly lower risk of being symptomatic when infected by Zika virus.

Research team finds that mesenchymal progenitors can be grown without use of animal-derived compounds, a requirement for therapeutic applications.

Changes in mosquito behavior and selection in the parasites mean new strategies are needed for any hopes of eradicating the disease following stalling of the positive trend in 2015.

One in 10 children and about one in six adults with private insurance received antibiotics they didn’t need at least once in 2016, a new Michigan Medicine study suggests.

Scientists have developed a biological system which lets cells form a desired shape by moulding their surrounding material - initially creating the world's first self-curving cornea.

Deleting a certain type of estrogen receptor in an area of the hypothalamus dramatically increased bone density and strength in female mice, opening up many therapeutic possibilities for improving women's health.

Imperial researchers have developed a new bioinspired material that interacts with surrounding tissues to promote healing.

Researchers have discovered the interaction between an Ebola virus protein and a protein in human cells that may be an important key to unlocking the pathway of replication of the killer disease in human hosts.

Using a novel patient-specific stem cell-based therapy, blindness was prevented in animal models of geographic atrophy, the advanced 'dry' form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is a leading cause of vision loss among people age 65 and older.