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Scientists have uncovered a novel method that could potentially prevent chemotherapy-induced hair loss.

A new way of measuring how relationships in a network change over time can reveal important details about the network, according to researchers. For example, when applied to the world economy, the method detected the greatest amount of network change during 2008-2009, the time of the global financial crisis.

EPFL scientists are developing new approaches for improved control of robotic hands - in particular for amputees - that combines individual finger control and automation for improved grasping and manipulation. This interdisciplinary proof-of-concept between neuroengineering and robotics was successfully tested on three amputees and seven healthy subjects.

A team of geneticists has discovered new biological targets that may help devise alternative cancer therapies that are becoming resistant to existing drugs.

Current medications for malaria are becoming less effective as drug resistance spreads, but the frigid waters of the Antarctic may yield a treatment.

Some cancer drug candidates in clinical trials kill cancerous cells through off-target effects instead of by interacting with their intended molecular targets, according to new study findings.

a molecule that plays a pivotal role in determining the fate of cells under stress, much like a Roman emperor deciding the fate of gladiators in the coliseum. The findings appear today in the journal Nature and suggest a possible new approach for treatment of autoinflammatory and other diseases.

In a world first, researchers from Penn Medicine have used genetically modified T cells to target and ablate fibroblasts that contribute to the development of heart disease.

Seemingly identical cells can use different protein molecules to carry out the same function in an important cellular process. Scientists have named this variability “functional mosaicism”. It could have significant implications for the development of therapeutic treatments.

Scientists have found a way to dispatch minute fragments of palladium inside cancerous cells. The metal could be used to aid cancer treatments.