In a new clinical trial, researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center set out to test the theory that giving Crohn's disease patients a new immune system can cure severe cases of the disease. Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract with...
Would you eat fish that had large open sores, strange black streaks, lesions, parasitic infections, chewed-up-looking fins and gashes all over it? Those are the type of grouper and red snapper that some fishermen in the Gulf are catching two years after the disastrous oil spill--and yet...
Neuron transplants have repaired brain circuitry and substantially normalized function in mice with a brain disorder, an advance indicating that key areas of the mammalian brain are more reparable than was widely believed. Collaborators from Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital...