Researchers have shown that the EBNA1 protein of Epstein-Barr virus disrupts structures in the nucleus of nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells.

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Burnham Institute for Medical Research announced 295 host cell factors that are involved in human immunodeficiency virus infection.

Researchers have shown that a new diagnostic marker called procalcitonin can help identify infants at high risk for SBIs.

Some bacteria may help protect against the development of a type of esophageal cancer, known as adenocarcinoma, according to a new review of the medical literature.

Low levels of biocides can make Staphylococcus aureus remove toxic chemicals from the cell even more efficiently, potentially making it resistant to some antibiotics.

Unlike freewheeling financial markets, the lending process in the body is under strict regulation to ensure that more isn't lent than can be afforded.

Scientists have discovered an important fat precursor cell that may in time explain how changes in the numbers of fat cells might increase and lead to obesity.

Moderate consumption of red wine may decrease the risk of lung cancer in men, according to a report recently published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

An experimental anti-cancer drug can prevent -- and even reverse -- potentially fatal cardiovascular damage in a mouse model of progeria, a rare genetic disorder.

Scientists have found lichens can give insight into nitrogen air pollution effects on Sierra Nevada and San Bernardino mountain ecosystems.

A research team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is clarifying a previously unappreciated way that cellular processes are disrupted in cancer.

Plant scientists have discovered another piece of the genetic puzzle that controls how plants respond to high temperatures. That may allow plant breeders to create new varieties of crops that flourish harsher climates.

Researchers are using nanotechnology to search for new cancer-fighting drugs through a process that could be up to 10,000 times faster than current methods.

A gene contained in laboratory yeast has helped researchers uncover new findings about the process by which protein molecules bind to control sequences in genes in order to initiate gene expression

Exposure to bisphenol A may reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments by inducing a group of proteins that protect cancer cells from the toxic effects of chemotherapy.

Researchers have found that a single intravenous dose of the hormone erythropoietin immediately after myocardial infarction can drastically reduce or eliminate apoptosis.

Researchers are still discovering new characteristics of Hodgkin lymphoma, a common form of cancer of the lymphatic system.

In the past few years, the design and manufacturing of circuits at nanoscopic scale for integrated devices has become one of the frontier fields in new material science and technology.

Bypassing limitations on raw materials, a researcher has managed to use cells as factories to make DNA based nanostructures inside a living cell.

An international team of researchers is a step closer to understanding the spread of deadly diseases such as listeriosis, after observing for the first time how bacteria respond to stress.