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If certain signaling cascades are misregulated, diseases like cancer, obesity and diabetes may occur. A recently discovered mechanism has a crucial influence on such signaling cascades and may be an important key for the future development of therapies against these diseases.

Why do some people with amyloid plaques and tau tangles typical of symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease, not have dementia?

Researchers have developed a new method that aids in the process of making valuable compounds by using a unique combination of catalysts.

Sperm success is not always dictated by sperm length, bird study shows.

Study indicates that a defect in CPEB4 could be the link between environmental factors that alter brain development and the genes that determine susceptibility to autism

Tragic miscarriages for a couple have led to a discovery with potentially broad implications for future disease treatments, according to a team of researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

A new survey interviewing over 2,500 U.S. adults has found a variation in support levels for genetic engineering - with only causes that directly have the potential to prevent disease findings majority support.

Eating breakfast before exercise may “prime” the body to burn carbohydrates during exercise and more rapidly digest food after working out, researchers have found.

Researchers have discovered a method of diagnosing a broad range of cancers at their early stages by utilizing a particular malaria protein, which sticks to cancer cells in blood samples.

Vaccinations have begun in a first-in-human trial of an experimental live, attenuated Zika virus vaccine.