A University of Manitoba-led study has successfully eliminated breast-cancer-derived brain tumors in mice, using a drug to ...

Researchers used integrated Mendelian randomization in a cohort of over 247,000 individuals to identify 62 plasma proteins associated with breast cancer risk. Nine high-confidence targets, including ...

Scientists have a radical new plan for controlling mosquito numbers and fighting malaria: lacing human blood with a drug that's poisonous for the insects, so sucking on this blood marks their last ...

Interested in finding a better way to develop drugs to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Northeastern researcher ...

Scientists have long known that more than 500 genes (out of approximately 20,000 human protein-coding genes) are crucial for ...

In animal models, NU-9 was found to show promise in treating Alzheimer's by reducing toxic protein buildup and brain inflammation.

“This protein is an attractive target for new anti-cancer drugs because while it is dispensable in healthy human cells, RAD52 becomes essential for survival of cancer cells, which are deficient in DNA ...

A drug for a rare disease makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes and ... type 1 — whose bodies struggle to break down the protein building block or amino acid tyrosine. The drug works by ...

A robust and efficient protein biomarker development pipeline helps scientists overcome common challenges associated with ...

ATTR-CM is a disease in which harmful proteins build up in ... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is replacing animal testing with human-relevant methods, including artificial intelligence ...