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University of Galway researchers discover biomarkers that may help in determining tailored cancer treatment.

Patients taking statins to lower high cholesterol levels often complain of muscle pains, and some clinicians recommended vitamin D supplements to ease the aches, but a new study shows the vitamin appears to have no substantial impact.

Alterations in the ratio of p53 isoforms could provide a biomarker to indicate whether breast cancer will respond to DNA-damaging therapies.

A small molecule has been designed that can pass through the blood–brain barrier and bind to disease-causing RNA, which causes it to be degraded. Researchers propose it could be used to treat ALS and genetic causes of dementia.

A unique, quick-closing valve in an aquaporin – a water-regulating channel protein – has been identified in a species of fish, enabling it to rapidly adapt to new environments.

New research from the University of Basel has unpicked the metabolic changes that convert a healthy liver cell to a tumor cell, identifying a cancer "signature" that could be used as a biomarker.

A review of clinical trials on honey has revealed that it lowered fasting blood glucose, "bad" cholesterol and triglycerides, improving cardiometabolic health.

Many estimates of how strongly traits and diseases share genetic signals may be inflated, according to a new UCLA-led study that indicates current methods for assessing genetic relationships between traits fail to account for mating patterns.

Genetic background has an effect on the metabolism of the essential polyunsaturated fatty acids alpha-linolenic acid and linoleic acid, a recent study from the University of Eastern Finland shows.

On November 16, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its first pre-market consultation for a human food made from cultured animal cells was complete. The consultation was with the California-based company UPSIDE Foods, which describes itself as the world’s first cultivated meat company, founded in 2015.