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Researchers report they have demonstrated in mouse tissue grown in the lab that the cell layer surrounding breast milk ducts reaches out to grab stray cancer cells to keep them from spreading through the body. The findings reveal that this cell layer is an active defense against breast cancer metastasis.

Building on their development of the first culture system to replicate fully the pathology behind Alzheimer’s disease, a research team has now produced a system that includes neuroinflammation, the key biological response that leads to the death of brain cells.

Contrary to previous thinking, new research shows that bacteria go extinct at substantial rates, although appear to avoid the mass extinctions that have hit larger forms of life on Earth.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and their colleagues are a step closer to developing a broadly effective antibody treatment against the three major Ebola viruses that cause lethal disease in humans.

A new, double-layered nanoparticle vaccine made with peptides has been found to effectively protect mice against influenza A virus.

The grant will fund a series of preclinical studies to determine whether THC consumption during adolescence causes persistent neurological changes.

The cannabis-derived compound could be used to treat nausea in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.

Mice with pancreatic cancer that were treated with a naturally occurring constituent of medicinal cannabis alongside chemotherapy, survived almost three times longer than those treated with chemotherapy alone, a new study reports.

The scientific group of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University headed by Professor Andrei Kozlov published the results of a study devoted to the search of solutions for creating the HIV vaccine.

'Scutoids': nature's solution to epithelial cell packing. "During the modeling process, the results we saw were weird."