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Fusicoccin-A, a small molecule produced by a certain strain of fungus repaired damaged axons in culture.

Dana-Faber Cancer Institute report class IIa HDAC inhibitor, TMP195, switches the macrophage response by altering gene activity. Combining its effect with other immunotherapies significantly improved remission of breast cancer in a mouse model.

Ellutia Chromatography Solutions officially opened its new state-of-the-art facility in Lancaster Way Business Park, Ely, on 28th February 2017, consolidating its offices, laboratories, production and warehouse on one site.

A protein has been found to have a previously unknown role in the ageing of cells. Researchers hope that the findings could one day lead to new treatments for ageing and early cancer.

A new technique has been recently developed that effectively identifies cancer-causing substances in the urine or blood.

A group of researchers unraveled the three-dimensional structure of actomyosin rigor complex (complex of actin and myosin filaments), clarifying how skeletal muscles contract at high speed and high efficiency.

Researchers from the University of Houston and Houston Methodist Hospital are developing control algorithms, imaging technology, ultrafast computational methods and human-machine immersion methods to harness the force from a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner to both image and steer millimeter-sized robots through the body.

Mass vaccination programmes lasting at least five years in combination with improved, continuous surveillance systems would be the only effective measures for eradicating bluetongue in Europe, EFSA has concluded.

Study suggests soldiers with an abnormal cortisol level prior to experiencing stressful combat situations are more likely to develop PTSD.

University of Tsukuba-led research reveals role for KLF4 protein in instructing cells to undergo metabolic changes while acquiring stem cell characteristics.