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One way to treat the most common type of kidney cancer is to use anti-angiogenic drugs to cut off the blood supply to the tumors, but patients respond differently to the drugs, and choosing the wrong one can make the cancer grow faster.

Researchers, including one who was inspired by the cancer death of a close friend, have developed a new technology that could change how gene editing is approached in the future.

Researchers have demystified a metabolic enzyme that could be the next major molecular target in cancer treatment.

Changes in Rac1 activity could affect the structure, motility and connectivity of neurons in people with Huntington's Disease.

Human cells have a sophisticated regulatory system at their disposal: labeling proteins with the small molecule ubiquitin. In a first, researchers have succeeded in marking proteins with ubiquitin in a targeted manner, in test tubes as well as in living cells.

Leukemia treatments often leave girls infertile, but a procedure developed by researchers at the University of Michigan working with mice is a step toward restoring their ability to be biological mothers.

The 3D structure and molecular mechanism of ATP citrate lyase, an enzyme central to metabolism, has been unmasked revealing a crucial evolutionary relationship that radically changes our understanding of the origins of cellular respiration.

For the first time scientists have found an organism that can produce chlorophyll but does not engage in photosynthesis. The peculiar organism is dubbed 'corallicolid' because it is found in 70 per cent of corals around the world and may provide clues as to how to protect coral reefs in the future.

An all-in-one immunotherapy approach shows promise, as it not only kicks HIV out of hiding in the immune system, but also kills it. The key lies in immune cells designed to recognize an entirely different virus.

Scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have recently uncovered the mechanisms of how RNA polymerase II performs intrinsic cleavage reaction to proofread RNA transcriptions, shedding light on how mis-regulation of accurate transcription can lead to diseases including cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.