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Classical model systems such as cell culture and mice are key to understanding cancer. But what can we learn by examining how cancer works in other models? Animals like naked mole rats and Tasmanian devils offer a new perspective on how cancer works and how we can treat it.

How will your body respond to the vaccine?

Fetuses transfer some of their cells to their mother in a phenomenon called microchimerism

Spending an hour every day listening to a low-pitched thrum and gazing at blinking lights may help prevent structural changes in the brain and cognitive impairments associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

Sævik measures corticosteroid levels in people with Addison’s disease to challenge the pervasive idea that these patients lose all adrenal cortex function as their disease progresses.

From excising integrated viral sequences to modifying stem cells, CRISPR offers new possibilities for developing HIV treatments.

A new molecule in Phase 1 clinical trials kills leukemia cells by blocking their ability to repair DNA.

The common flu treatment, Tamiflu, may help treat lethal bloodstream staph infections.

Epidemiologists may have found the perfect method to delineate if long-term use of antihypertensive medications increases cancer risk.

Using a mouse model of breast cancer brain metastasis, researchers showed that tumor cells require fatty acid synthesis to grow, which offers a potential therapeutic target.