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Prostate cancer (PCa) is a leading cause of cancer death among men in the United States, with more than 3.6 million men living with prostate cancer...

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and colleagues have developed a strategy that uses exosomes - tiny membrane-bound sacs secreted by cells - to mimic the heart-regenerating effects of cardiac cell transplants, while...

Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome...

Three proof-of-concept prototypes seek to make contactless ‘acoustic tweezer’ technology available to a wide array of laboratories Three proof of concept experimental setups that use acoustic tweezers in...

In 2018, one-half of the Nobel Prize was awarded to Arthur Ashkin, the physicist who developed optical tweezers, the use of a tightly focused laser beam to isolate and move micron-scale objects (the size of...

A research team at LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) discovered that tumour-derived extracellular vesicles promote liver cancer metastasis. The novel findings of the tumour-derived extracellular vesicles provide insights into...

MU researchers identify novel RNAs that could serve as biomarkers for early disease detection. Pancreatic cancer is rarely detected at its early stages because symptoms often do not present themselves until after the cancer has progressed. By then, invasive procedures ...

A joint project led by Kumamoto University (Japan) has discovered a new mechanism for anticancer drug resistance in gastric cancer. Researchers found that the Annexin A6 molecule contained in...

Through their basic research, physicians at the Heart Center of the University Hospital Bonn have discovered how the communication between...

The study from Chapman University discovered that membrane swelling in primary cilia has extracellular vesicle-like characteristics--a finding that can lead to treatment of ciliopathy disorders Research from Chapman University provides new insight into...