Tools & Techniques Public health

Benefits of a Drug You Never Use

| Nicholas W. Papageorge

Raising awareness of the hidden beneficiaries of medical innovation could help boost funding for drug development.

Research Field Cell & molecular biology

Sugars in the Spotlight

| Cathy Merry

It’s time to recognize that there is a world beyond genes and proteins. Glycobiology should take its rightful place at the center of biomedical research.

Research Field Cardiovascular

One Man’s Trash…

| William Aryitey

Researchers dive through genetic “junk” to discover a small protein with lots of heart

Tools & Techniques Genetics

Catching the Thermodynamic Express

| David Zhang

A new method could dramatically speed up analysis of nucleic acid thermal behavior

Tools & Techniques Cancer

PD-1 on the Brain

| William Aryitey

Revolutionary cancer immunotherapies appear to alleviate Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice

Research Field Cell & molecular biology

Missed Connections

| William Aryitey

A protein critical for synaptic plasticity in baby mice could hold clues to the origins of autism

Research Field Cancer

Decoding Cancer Cross-Talk

| William Aryitey

Intercepting communication between cancer cells and endothelium uncovers clues to metastasis mechanisms

Research Field Cancer

Chemotherapy All Wrapped Up

| William Aryitey

Could exosome encapsulation be the secret to delivering higher potency in chemotherapy?

Disease Area Public health

Only Half the Battle

| Charlotte Barker

The true mission of translational science is to take new medicines and diagnostics from bench to bedside – and beyond

Tools & Techniques Cell & gene therapy

Image of the Month

| Charlotte Barker

Researchers at MIT have programmed induced pluripotent stem cells to form rudimentary livers, complete with different tissues, by engineering expression of GATA6.

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