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Using mice to model conditions in the womb, Cambridge researchers have provided new insights on how the placenta regulates how much oxygen and nutrients it transports to babies during challenging pregnancies.

A review of studies about the role of iron accumulation in initiating apoptosis has revealed new insights on the major driver of this process.

The ideal drug is one that only affects the exact cells and neurons it is designed to treat, without unwanted side effects. This concept is especially important when treating the delicate and complex human brain. Now, scientists have revealed a mechanism that could lead to this kind of long-sought specificity for treatments of strokes and seizures.

Deleting a certain type of estrogen receptor in an area of the hypothalamus dramatically increased bone density and strength in female mice, opening up many therapeutic possibilities for improving women's health.

Researchers have succeeded in developing a chemical process to absorb infrared light and re-emit it as visible energy, allowing innocuous radiation to penetrate living tissue and other materials without the damage caused by high-intensity light exposure.

Imperial researchers have developed a new bioinspired material that interacts with surrounding tissues to promote healing.

Researchers have discovered the interaction between an Ebola virus protein and a protein in human cells that may be an important key to unlocking the pathway of replication of the killer disease in human hosts.

A team of scientists has experimentally proved the effectiveness of the formerly suggested "light" method in oncotherapy. In a series of laboratory preclinical tests, the tumor growth stopped in 70% of mice.

Using a novel patient-specific stem cell-based therapy, blindness was prevented in animal models of geographic atrophy, the advanced 'dry' form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is a leading cause of vision loss among people age 65 and older.

Have you ever been stressed out by the idea of doing math or statistics problems? You’re not alone. A new study has used a questionnaire and an analytical technique called "network science" to determine precisely what factors contribute to this kind of statistics anxiety among psychology majors.