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A new vaccine strategy could offer protection to millions of chickens threatened by a serious respiratory disease.

This research demonstrates a signaling pathway that can be activated by different methods and could represent a new approach to cochlear regeneration and, ultimately, restoration of hearing.

Possible links between herpes and Alzheimer's disease have been assessed in a recent review.

Patients who have not benefited from standard therapy for ankylosing spondylitis (AS), a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by back pain and sacroiliac-joint damage, may soon have another option.

Microorganisms often assemble natural products similar to industrial assembly lines. Certain enzymes, non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) play a key role in this process. Biotechnologists have now discovered how these enzymes interact with each other, bringing them one step closer to their goal of engineering peptide natural products.

A $5.1 million grant has been awarded from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to advance the development of a novel therapy for blinding retinal conditions.

New research has shown that by using a combination of immunotherapy and chemotherapy the body’s own immune system can be tuned to attack triple-negative breast cancer, extending survival by up to ten months.

A novel method of overcoming treatment resistance to both PD-1 and adoptive cellular therapy has been identified, by employing a concomitant hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell transfer.

Researchers have succeeded in using CRISPR-Cas9, to decrease mosquito body size, moving the research one step closer to eliminating mosquitoes that carry dengue fever and Zika virus.

A preventative approach to HIV drastically reduced the number of HIV diagnoses in New South Wales, Australia.