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Asthma and respiratory viruses don't go well together. Weakened by the common cold or the flu, a person suffering an asthma attack often responds poorly to emergency treatment. Researchers make a strong case for vaccinating asthmatic kids against flu.

A major clinical trial has become the first to show benefits of immunotherapy in prostate cancer – for some men with advanced, otherwise untreatable disease.

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have visualised for the first time how the protein SOCS1 'switches off' cell signalling to dampen immune responses and block cancer growth.

A 21-gene test performed on tumors could enable most patients with the most common type of early breast cancer to safely forgo chemotherapy, according to a landmark study.

Patient-derived organoids can quickly and accurately predict how patients with pancreatic cancer respond to a variety of treatments, facilitating a precision-medicine approach to the deadly disease.

Scientists have created a tiny toaster-sized chemistry lab built around a very small mass spectrometer for a rover that will drill beneath the Martian surface looking for signs of past or present life.

A new technique provides a more in-depth look at the metabolism and physiology within microbial communities. Specifically, the new technique provides a more direct way to determine what food source, or substrate, a certain microbe has consumed.

New research suggests that 1 in 5 deaths among young adults in the United States is opioid-related. The study was led by researchers at the St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, ON, results were published in JAMA Network Open today.

New chemical analysis conducted on ancient pottery proves that olive oil has existed in Italy hundreds of years longer than anthropologists have previously recorded.

Scientists find that plastic nanoparticles are easily ingested by marine organisms, accumulate in the organisms over time, and risk being transferred up the food chain, threatening food safety and posing health risks.