Healthy humans make nice homes for viruses
September 16, 2014 By Caroline Arbanas The same viruses that make us sick can take up residence in and on the human body without provoking a sneeze, cough or other…
How infectious disease may have shaped human origins
Inactivation of 2 genes may have allowed escape from bacterial pathogens, researchers say Roughly 100,000 years ago, human evolution reached a mysterious bottleneck: Our ancestors had been reduced to perhaps…
Chemotherapy contributes to relapse in cancer patients by damaging DNA and generating new mutations that allow tumor cells to evolve and become resistant to treatment.
The chemotherapy drugs required to push a common form of adult leukemia into remission may contribute to DNA damage that can lead to a relapse of the disease in some…
Low levels of vitamin B12 may increase risk for neural tube defects
Public release date: 2-Mar-2009 Children born to women who have low blood levels of vitamin B12 shortly before and after conception may have an increased risk of a neural tube…
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