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A unique approach might help treat some chronic inflammatory diseases: force cells to eliminate damaged mitochondria before they activate the NLRP3 inflammasome.

One of the major challenges in the field of drug delivery is to get the active molecules to the right organ, avoiding them to be absorbed elsewhere than the inflammated area. Now, chemist Jasmin Mecinovic, together with his international colleagues, has found a new method of transporting these molecules.

Researchers are reporting early success with a new tool to help people with Parkinson's disease improve their balance and potentially decrease falls with high-tech help: virtual reality.

The nicotine found in JUUL products is currently, on average, about 61 milligrams per milliliter of fluid in pods—equivalent to more than one pack of conventional cigarettes.

Researchers have discovered thousands of genes essential for cancer’s survival and ranked which ones show the most promise as drug targets for developing new treatments.

Providing rodents with more space, an exercise wheel, toys and company before an injury helped to ‘prime’ their cells, making it more likely their damaged nerves would regenerate following spinal injury.

A Penn State researcher and his team will receive over $1.8 million over three years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to investigate how opioid use is treated in adolescence.

In studies with lab-grown human cells and in mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have found that an experimental drug may be twice as good at fighting vision loss as previously thought.

All cells possess a cytoskeleton which allows them to move and maintain their shape. Scientists recently showed that a part of this cytoskeleton called branched actin is also essential to cell proliferation: this actin transmits information to cells on whether they should proliferate. If the necessary conditions are not met, these actin fibres are not synthesized, and the cell does not divide – except in the case of cancerous cells, which can override this control mechanism.

Scientists have developed a new imaging technology to visualize what cells eat, which could aid the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer.