Category: 4. Health

The COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines that saved 2.5 million lives globally during the pandemic could help spark the immune system to fight cancer. This is the surprising takeaway of a new study that we and our colleagues published in the journal…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The most widely used COVID-19 vaccines may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients – revving up their immune systems to help fight tumors.

People with advanced lung or skin…

The team’s work represents the first…

Animal models

All animals used in this study were handled in accordance with protocols approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC) at the University of California San Francisco. All protocols were conducted in accordance…

Mice

All mouse studies complied with relevant ethics regulations and were approved by either the Genentech Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) in an Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care…

Pigs that are resistant to a deadly viral disease have been created by scientists at Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute.

The gene-edited animals remained healthy when exposed to classical swine fever (CSF), a highly contagious and often fatal disease….