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A team of researchers has discovered a combination of pharmaceutical drugs that not only increases healthy lifespan in the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), but also delays the rate of ageing in them, a finding that could someday mean longer, healthier lives for humans.

Flaviviruses, such as dengue and Zika, were assumed to be symmetrical icosahedrons based on data from microscopes, but they might not be perfectly symmetrical after all.

Researchers have developed a promising targeted strategy to treat chemotherapy-resistant acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and a diagnostic test to determine which AML patients would most likely benefit from this treatment.

The entrainment of theta brain waves with a commercially available device not only enhances theta wave activity, but also boosts memory performance. That’s according to new research from the Center for Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis, published recently in the journal Cognitive Neuroscience.

A novel technology for profiling protein turnover and degradation offers new insight into diagnosis and understanding the molecular basis of autoimmunity, cancer, neurodegeneration and other disorders.

A pilot study identified microplastics in human stools for the first time – in all of eight international participants.

Putting patients on aspirin following a knee replacement is a safe, cost-effective alternative to anticoagulants, U-M researchers find.

The newly discovered adhesion complex can provide answers to an as-yet unanswered question – how the cell can remain attached to the matrix during cell division.

Treating the prostate with radiotherapy alongside standard treatment led to a 11 percent increase in survival for some men with advanced prostate cancer, shows trial.

Now available in Europe: A diagnostic test which can simultaneously detect tuberculosis-causing bacteria and determine if the bacteria contain mutations associated with resistance to two important first line drugs.