A flood of new discoveries has refined our definition of cancer stem cells. Now it’s up to human clinical trials to test if they can make a difference in patients.
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Over the past 15 years, new laws and regulations in the United States and the European Union have expanded to require the inclusion of pediatric patients in clinical drug trials. Before these laws were enacted, the US Food and Drug Administration (F
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Scientists study a variety of large-scale biological phenomena from the vantage point of space.
Despite years of research, the longstanding mystery of where the autophagosome gets its double lipid bilayers is not much clearer.
Unraveling the molecular causes of acute pancreatitis—a potentially deadly disease in which the pancreas essentially digests itself—is yielding clues to how it might be treated.
Examples of parasites that manipulate the behavior of their hosts are not hard to come by, but scientists have only recently begun to understand how they induce such dramatic changes.
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