Lab Bench to Bedside

In his recent book, The Body, Bill Bryson reports that according to the Royal Society of Chemistry, the materials needed to build a human would ...

With a five-year survival rate of less than 5%, a type of pancreatic cancer called pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is an urgent research priority. Now a ...

With obesity, good advice only goes so far. What’s good for one person hasn’t turned out to be good for all, and it’s left patients and physicians adrift. ...

Like a robot vacuum for your brain, immune cells called microglia move around and hoover up the neuro-equivalent of crumbs and dirt. But for the ...

If Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases teamed up to mingle their most unpleasant features, the result might look a lot like Lewy body dementia – a progressive, incurable and ...

Within each of the body’s tiny cells are dozens to tens of dozens of even tinier mitochondria. These organelles (“little organs”) convert fuel from the ...

For Alaa Koleilat, pursuing a doctorate is a tale of two mentors with a few tails thrown in for good measure. With the help of ...

Clinical trials are the part of research that determines whether a medical intervention should be moved, or "translated," from the lab to routine patient care. ...

Despite efforts by researchers, experts are still unable to determine a genetic basis of disease for many people diagnosed. One reason: “camouflaged” genes. These are hidden chromosome regions ...

In the quest to turn laboratory breakthroughs into new cancer treatments, much can be lost in translation. Only a fraction of “eureka moments” result in ...