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Blocking Out Negativity
How people process the social stigma of having visible skin lesions is reported.
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Stress May Increase Teen Risk for Smoking
Neurobiological factors and stressful life events can trigger and prolong smoking habits in adolescents, especially in individuals with depression.
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Silence, Please!
A new formulation of magnetic nanoparticles used to deliver nucleic acids that slow tumour progression in mice is reported online.
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Fighting Fibrosis
A potential new target for drugs aiming to treat lung fibrosis is reported.
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Misbehaved Bacteria
Some bacteria in the intestinal flora can cause colon cancer, and a study discloses a molecular mechanism for this undesirable effect.
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Cilia's Dual Role in Cancer
Cilia can promote or suppress tumor growth, depending on the nature of the tumor-initiating event.
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Fighting Cartilage Loss in Osteoarthritis
The identification of a new potential therapeutic target against osteoarthritis is reported.
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Mediator Of Multiple Sclerosis
A factor that may contribute to the progressive phase of multiple sclerosis (MS) has been identified.
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Genetic Risk Factors for Childhood Leukemia
Common genetic variants associated with pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have been identified in two new reports published online.
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Preventing Diseases by Replacing Defective DNA
A new approach has been devised to replace defective mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from an egg with healthy mtDNA from a donor.
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Antioxidants Reveal a Darker Side
The cancer-preventing reputation of antioxidants takes a hit with the discovery that they can sometimes promote the survival and proliferation of cancer cells.
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A Model for Drug Screening
Stem cells have been induced from patients with an extremely rare neurological disorder and their particular gene expression examined.
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Identifying Candidate Genes by Targeted Sequencing
A sequencing method that targets only the protein-coding regions of the genome could be used to identify rare and novel disease-causing gene variants.
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Hope for Hepatitis C Treatment
DNA sequence variation that affects a person's response to treatment for chronic infections by the hepatitis C virus is reported online.
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