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The NIH has launched a new initiative to harness the power of commercial cloud computing and provide NIH biomedical researchers access to the most advanced, cost-effective computational infrastructure, tools and services available.

This is the first time a signaling protein has been shown to control its own transport mechanism.

In a finding that could point the way toward better computer vision systems, Brown University researchers show why computers are so bad at seeing when one thing is not like another.

Investigators have used an experimental compound in mice to successfully reverse hair loss, hair whitening and skin inflammation linked by previous studies to human diets heavy in fat and cholesterol.

A gene that's associated with an autoimmune form of hair loss could be exploited to improve cancer immunotherapy, suggests a new mouse study by Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) researchers.

New device could quickly detect disease-causing bacteria and save lives.

New research has shown that ovarian cancer patients with a tumor mutation in the BRAF gene respond exceptionally well to treatment with targeted drugs, known as BRAF inhibitors.

“The organ is saying ‘I need help.’ And neighboring cells come in to make an assist.”

Researchers report they have demonstrated in mouse tissue grown in the lab that the cell layer surrounding breast milk ducts reaches out to grab stray cancer cells to keep them from spreading through the body. The findings reveal that this cell layer is an active defense against breast cancer metastasis.

Building on their development of the first culture system to replicate fully the pathology behind Alzheimer’s disease, a research team has now produced a system that includes neuroinflammation, the key biological response that leads to the death of brain cells.