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A daily dose of baking soda may help reduce the destructive inflammation of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, scientists say.

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an incredibly deadly brain cancer and presents a serious black box challenge. It's virtually impossible to observe how these tumors operate in their natural environment and animal models don't always provide good answers. Researchers have now taken an important step towards meeting that challenge.

Using sunlight for sustainable and cheap production of, for example, medicines. The 'mini-factory' in the form of a leaf that was presented in 2016 showed that it is possible. Now researchers have come with an improved version: their 'mini-factory' is now able to keep production at the same level, irrespective of the variation in sunlight due to cloudiness or time of the day.

Scientists have shown how stimulating a specific location on the surface of immune cells can be targeted with antibodies to help in their fight against cancer.

Exposure to a toxin primarily found in sheep could be linked to the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) in humans, new research suggests.

Researchers have engineered a new compound that animal tests suggest could offer the pain-relieving properties of opioids such as morphine and oxycodone without the risk of addiction.

Bacteria's internal bomb, the so-called toxin-antitoxin (TA) system that is part of the normal bacterial makeup, may be triggered to make bacteria turn on themselves, providing a valuable target for novel antimicrobial approaches in drug design.

Pre-clinical results indicate that hemp extracts might be useful for stopping or slowing down metastasis - the spreading of cancer to other parts of the body.

There are five distinct molecular sub-types of the brain cancer glioma, according to findings from the largest ever genetic study of its kind of the cancer.

Acyclic retinoid, an artificial compound derived from vitamin A, has been found to prevent the recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common form of liver cancer.