Tag: diseases

Deadly disease-causing organisms from pathogen families that include bird flu, plague and Ebola pose a threat to health in the ...

A research team from the Medical University of Vienna has made further progress in the treatment of intestinal inflammation. A ...

The impact of heavy periods or irregular menstruation goes beyond discomfort, pain, or even infertility—they may have lasting long-term effects. ...

ETH researchers have developed a new gene switch that can be activated using a commercially available nitroglycerine patch applied to ...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Prolonged illnesses like cancer and chronic infections often leave the immune system in a state of ...

Australian cancer researchers are the first to establish a next-generation gene-editing tool for modeling and interrogating human disease. A novel ...

Using RNA to interfere with a gene’s expression of disease-causing proteins is a validated therapeutic approach, but so far, the ...

How fruit flies mate may hold a key to limiting the spread of diseases by mosquitoes. In a new study, ...

What are the effects of weight loss on natural killer cell function, our first line of immune defense against cancer, ...

The advance of H5N1 bird flu reminds us that novel pathogens remain a stubborn threat. Although a full-blown pandemic doesn’t ...