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The effect of flavored e-cigarette liquids on endothelial health and macrophage activation was assessed in a study of human stem cell-derived endothelial cells.

DNA assembled into nanostructures such as tubes and origami-inspired shapes could someday find applications ranging from DNA computers to nanomedicine. Now, researchers have designed DNA nanostructures that can heal themselves in serum.

Researchers have unveiled clues into how breast cancer cells spread around the body. The team identified a genetic ‘switch’ in breast cancer cells that boosts the production of a type of internal scaffolding.

Researchers have designed a new vision for animal genomics research into the next decade. The blueprint they created could help scientists and farmers meet the needs of a growing global population while improving livestock welfare and production.

Inhibiting an enzyme called cyclic GMP-AMP synthase could stop an unwanted cascade of cellular signaling events that occurs during autoimmune diseases.

A genome-wide association study has identified five new genetic risk loci that can pass on risk for harmful alcohol use from parents to children, and confirmed one previously identified risk locus.

Prostate cancer cells develop the ability to mimic bone-forming cells called osteoblasts, enabling them to proliferate in the bone microenvironment –researchers describe how in a new study.

Understanding the genetics of lipid species offers information beyond that provided by routine lipid screening, and can help improve risk prediction and treatment. In the first large-scale study, novel lipid-associated genetic variants were identified, some of which were linked with risk for cardiovascular disease, such as heart attacks and strokes.

Scientists now show that cancer cells of glioblastomas – conspicuously aggressive solid brain tumors – manifest developmental plasticity and their phenotypic characteristics are less constrained than previously believed.

Viruses interact with proteins in the biological fluids of their host resulting in a layer of proteins on the viral surface. This makes the virus more infectious and facilitates the formation of plaques characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.