In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells ...

A research team led by Prof. Jiang Yanyi from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered an important mechanism that enables squamous cell carcinoma (SCC ...

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for ...

A range of external factors, including exercise and smoking, was almost 10 times more likely than genetic risk factors to ...

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Eikon Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company that integrates advanced engineering with cutting-edge molecular and cell biology to accelerate drug discovery and development, today ...

Cancer cells work together to source nutrients from their environment -- a cooperative process that was previously overlooked by scientists but may be a promising target for treating cancer.

This cross-journal Collection between Communications Materials, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports brings together the latest research on alloys used in nuclear reactors. With this cross ...

Immune therapy has transformed how cancer is treated, but many tumors continue to evade these treatments, thanks to their ...

The immune systems of cancer patients are highly disrupted, with those who have a higher number of immune cells in their blood having a better survival rate, finds a new study that uses a pioneering ...

Cancer genomics is the study of the totality of DNA sequence and gene expression differences between tumour cells and normal host cells. It aims to understand the genetic basis of tumour cell ...

Physics attempts to both answer philosophical questions about the nature of the universe and provide solutions to technological problems. Antiferromagnetic order blocks interlayer hopping of ...