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Leptin, a molecule produced by fat cells, appears to diminish the effects of tamoxifen, an estrogen-blocking therapy used to treat and prevent breast cancers.

A team from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has discovered the primary target of the experimental cancer drug CX-5164, revealing a possible risk for late effects of treatment.

According to research, regular blood tests before and during chemotherapy for prostate cancer can detect whether or not a patient is resistant or developing resistance to treatment with docetaxel.

Altered function of the red blood cells leads to vascular damage in type 2 diabetes. Results from a new study in cells from patients with type 2 diabetes and mice show that this effect is caused by low levels of an important molecule in the red blood cells.

A team of researchers has shown for the first time that cellular senescence is caused by irreversible damage to the genome rather than simply by telomere erosion.

The network will help understand underlying mechanisms of rare diseases and thus enables identification of causative genetic defects more accurately.

Research has found that mindful awareness is about both accepting and engaging with life’s challenges, and that’s what popularized concepts of mindfulness tend to miss.

Levels of dopamine and the placebo effect can determine whether patients with social anxieties improve when treated with SSRIs. A new study shows the effect was four times higher for patients with high expectations of the medication compared with patients with low expectations.

Poorly drained agricultural soils emit enough of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide that the resulting climate change effects could far exceed the benefits of using the same soils as a means of sequestering carbon, according to a recently published scientific study.

Rice traits are hugely important predictors of rice sales and consumption. It can be expensive and time-consuming to refine these traits and breeders have other important traits to think about. New research allows Latin American rice breeders to select regionally relevant eating-quality traits from the outset of a breeding program, saving time, effort and money.