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New observations of a young gas giant demonstrate the power of a ground-based method for searching for signatures of life.

A portable and affordable mobile diagnostic tool detects HIV viruses and monitors its management in resource-limited regions, utilizing a cellphone and nanotechnology.

Melanoma skin cancer tumors grow larger and are more likely to metastasize due to interactions between a pair of molecules, according to experiments in mice and human cells. The results may restore the potential for a type of cancer therapy previously abandoned in clinical trials.

Long-lived yelloweye rockfish have difficulty detoxifying mercury, which accumulates over time, within sensitive liver cells.

A new method of selectively binding proteins to nanoparticles has been published. The nanoparticles automatically recognize specific peptides, i.e. small proteins, and enter into highly selective binding with them. Among the model peptides which the researchers examined were amyloids. The researchers hope that the mechanism they have discovered might provide a new approach to treating diseases in which such deposits occur, such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Infectious Staphylococcus aureus diverts to its advantage a structure set up by human cells, in order to destroy and invade.

Overexpressing an miRNA precursor in cells increases the specific miRNA content in extra-cellular vesicles, a potential new mode of drug delivery vehicle.

The infectious agent of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has been found in the eyes of deceased CJD patients, raising concern for eye exams and transplants.

A new study shows how they stopped cancer cells from moving and spreading, even when the cells changed their movements. The discovery could have a major impact on millions of people undergoing therapies to prevent the spread of cancer within the body.

A team headed by ICREA researchers Salvador Aznar Benitah and Fran Supek concludes that care should be taken with drugs that inhibit epigenetic factors.