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The prevalence of kidney disease in the United States is ∼14%, with more than 600,000 patients with kidney failure. Despite the large and growing need for new therapies to treat kidney disease, few have been developed over the past two ...

Biomolecular engineer Todd Lowe has received a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support his lab’s international leadership...

Researchers have learned that precursor cells for skeletal muscles actually also give rise to neurons, blood vessels, blood cells and immune cells...

Researchers at Mayo Clinic are closer to answering the question, why does one colon polyp transform to cancer while another seemingly identical polyp...

An improved method for analyzing the expression of genes by single cells promises to enhance regenerative medicine therapy as well as disease...

n 1995, two University of Chicago-based cancer specialists suggested there was an intermediate state—somewhere between curable localized cancers and lethal widespread disease—for patients with metastatic cancer. Those physicians, Samuel...

Medicines like insulin and interferon are manufactured using genetically engineered bacteria, such as E. coli. E. coli grow quickly and can be given DNA that instructs them to make proteins used in medicines and other materials. However, the extra burden ...

By KEVIN JIANG April 26, 2018 A zebrafish egg cell forms a complex embryo in only a few hours. Video by Fengzhu Xiong and Sean Megason Whether a worm, a human or a blue whale, all multicellular life begins as a ...

Direct sequencing of RNA molecules such as virus genomes could help to unpick role of mysterious chemical modifications in genetic material. The genome of the flu virus has been fully sequenced in its native RNA form for the first time. ...

Study could help researchers target cancer-specific processes for cancer prevention or to develop treatments New research on bowel cancer has shown that every tumour is different, and that every cell within the tumour is also genetically unique. In the first ...