Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered new mechanisms underlying cellular adhesion and repair, findings that ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

Researchers are actively searching for ways to extend the survival benefit of targeted cancer therapies to prevent the possibility of highly resistant tumors. A new study led by researchers at the ...

A class of proteins that regulates cell repair and enhances cell growth-signaling systems could be a promising new target for the treatment of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases, ...

Salk researchers report they have discovered a protein called Mitf that mediates the repair function in the peripheral nervous systems of mice. The protein Mitf helps turn on the repair function of ...

Each year in the United States there are more than 3 million cases of peripheral neuropathy, wherein nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord are damaged and cause pain and loss of feeling in the ...

Stem cells play key roles in physiological tissue turnover, repair, and regeneration. However, characterizing and harnessing these mechanisms for therapeutic purposes has proven difficult. Researchers ...

Many of us are resigned to the fact that we’ll naturally lose some of our hearing as we age, but there may be a way to slow that down. Scientists at the University of Virginia (UVA) have identified a ...