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Ground breaking research could reduce the recurrence of prostate cancer in males, a new study in the journal Nature Communications reports.

ACTIVITY IN LATER LIFE IMPROVED SHORT-TERM COGNITIVE FITNESS

A Stanford team has launched a new challenge on the Eterna computer game. Players will design a CRISPR-controlling molecule, and with it open the possibility of new research and therapies.

A new kind of antibody targets a feature shared by proteins thought to cause the most damage in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and related conditions, creating potential for a unified treatment approach.

Vesicles are small packages of material released from cells and act to deliver cargo and messages to adjacent and distant cells. Vesicles are known to be important regulators of normal physiology and have also been implicated in disease, notably cancer.

By combining an FDA-approved cancer immunotherapy with an emerging tumor-roasting nanotechnology, Duke University researchers improved the efficacy of both therapies in a proof-of-concept study using mice.

The minimally invasive technique could lead to advances in mapping the brain and treating neurological disease

There has been rapid improvement in the cost and time necessary to sequence and analyze DNA. In the past decade, the cost to sequence a human genome has decreased 100,000 fold or more. This rapid improvement was made possible by faster, massively parallel processing. Modern sequencing techniques can sequence hundreds of millions of DNA strands simultaneously, resulting in a proliferation of new applications in domains ranging from personalized medicine, ancestry, and even the study of the microorganisms that live in your gut.