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A previously unknown airway cell type may be the key to understanding cystic fibrosis.

Bioengineered lungs have been successfully transplanted into adult pigs, with remarkable results.

A study found wide variation of sugar and calorie content between the same types of cakes and biscuits sold in the UK in 2016, reiterating that the industry is not complying in reducing the amount of sugar in products.

A new study published in Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, conducted by a Liverpool based research collaboration involving the University of Liverpool, has identified the drug that treats the extremely rare genetic disease alkaptonuria (AKU), AKA black bone disease.

Scientists have detected high levels of sunscreen chemicals in the waters of Shenzhen, China, and they also show that the products can affect zebrafish embryo development.

"This new class of compounds stop cancer cells dividing and proliferating by switching off their ability to continue the cell cycle,” says joint research leader Associate Professor Anne Voss of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and the University of Melbourne. “The technical term is cell senescence, but essentially the cells are put to sleep."

Genetic signatures trace origin of HIV infection and its potential path through populations.

Bronze Age Britons spliced plant fibres together to make cloth rather than spinning, a new study has found.

Sequencing the fetal DNA that circulates in a pregnant woman’s blood holds promise for modern genomic medicine, suggests a new review article. Fetal DNA sequencing improves the accuracy of prenatal screening tests for genetic conditions and at times has led to the diagnosis of maternal conditions that may have otherwise gone undetected.

A new drug-delivery technology which uses red blood cells (RBCs) to shuttle nano-scale drug carriers, called RBC-hitchhiking (RH), has been found in animal models to dramatically increase the concentration of drugs ferried precisely to selected organs, according to a study published in Nature Communications.