While many people now keep chickens or ducks in their backyards, there has been little research into how many of these birds are carrying dangerous pathogens or what flock owners are doing to prevent pathogens from spreading until now.

Scientists have shown for the first time a link between two types of heart problems and one of the most commonly prescribed classes of antibiotics.

In combination with the current prostate specific antigen (PSA) test, the new test could help men avoid unnecessary and invasive biopsies, over-diagnosis and over-treatment.

An artificial intelligence tool that analyzed 28 physical and molecular measures—all but one taken from blood samples—confirmed with 77 percent accuracy a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in male combat veterans, according to a new study.

Cold temperatures are not nearly as deadly as heat, with around 2% of all deaths nationwide related to heat, according to new research from the University of Technology Sydney.

Study reveals that E-cadherin, a molecule that allows cells to stick to each other, promotes metastasis in the most common type of breast cancer

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center discovered that a cell adhesion protein, E-cadherin, allows breast cancer cells to survive as they travel through the body and form new tumors, a process termed metastasis. Their conclusions, obtained through laboratory experiments and in mouse models, help explain how metastasis works in the most common form of breast cancer, invasive ductal carcinoma. E-cadherin appears to limit molecular stresses within the cancer cells and allow them to survive long enough to form new tumors. The finding, published online in the Sept. 4 issue of Nature, could lead to new ways to prevent breast cancers from recurring in patients.

“Previously, researchers thought that it was essential for cancer cells to lose E-cadherin in order to metastasize,” says study leader Andrew Ewald, Ph.D., professor of cell biology and co-director of the Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Program at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. “This was difficult to reconcile with the fact that breast tumors in patients typically continue to express E-cadherin. Our study was designed to test the role of this protein during metastasis.”

Read more at: Johns Hopkins Medicine

A cancer cell cluster escapes from a breast tumor. The E-cadherin mediated connections between the cells in the cluster (white bars) promote cancer cell survival during metastatic spread. (Photo credit: ©Brittany C. Bennett 2019)

A fresh look at how to best determine dietary guidelines for vitamin E has produced a surprising new finding.

A new drug discovered through a research collaboration between the University at Buffalo and Tetra Therapeutics may protect against memory loss, nerve damage and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.

Although food preferences are largely learned, dislike is the main reason parents stop offering or serving their children foods like vegetables. 

For millennia, the massive Tibetan mastiff has laid literal claim to the label “top dog.”