Biotech & pharma

New therapeutic target discovered for Alzheimer’s

18 Mar 2014

Researchers slow pancreatic cancer growth and spread by blocking key enzyme

By By Francesca Davenport | 18 Mar 2014

Microbial detection array detects plague in ancient human remains

14 Mar 2014

Exploring how cancerous and healthy cells compete may help us understand cancer

By By Gail Wilson | 11 Mar 2014

UV light aids cancer cells that creep along the outside of blood vessels

By By Shaun Mason | 11 Mar 2014

Stanford researchers create a new technique to study how we inherit disease

10 Mar 2014

A changing view of bone marrow cells

08 Mar 2014

Researchers identify “carbohydrates in a coal mine” for cancer detection

07 Mar 2014

Researchers find potential target for drug to treat allergic asthma

06 Mar 2014

Lab-grown human heart cells could mean fewer animals used in research

By By Sam Wong | 06 Mar 2014

New insight into neurodegenerative disease trigger

05 Mar 2014

Pill could help humans live longer, healthier

01 Mar 2014

Researchers discover pathway of protein that helps cancer cells survive

01 Mar 2014

Chemical chaperones help proteins do their jobs

27 Feb 2014

Research in the News: Tiny ‘garbage collectors’ help control brain development

By By Bill Hathaway | 20 Feb 2014

Scarring cells turned to beating muscle

14 Feb 2014

Dental study provides wealth of stem cell details

By By Beth Newcomb | 08 Feb 2014

A microchip for metastasis

By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 08 Feb 2014

Researchers design a microfluidic platform to see how cancer cells invade specific organs

Mystery solved: how nerve impulse generators get where they need to go

07 Feb 2014

Mutation leads to combined hyperlipidemia; genetic targeting may reverse it

07 Feb 2014

Protein that culls damaged eggs identified, infertility reversed

By By Krishna Ramanujan | 05 Feb 2014

Autistic brains create more information at rest

03 Feb 2014

Main intestinal disease bacteria to be sequenced

03 Feb 2014

Medical application of 3D printing could trigger ethical debate: Gartner

01 Feb 2014

Cell cycle speed is key to making aging cells young again

By By Bill Hathway | 01 Feb 2014