Shape-Shifting Drug Supercharges Cancer Treatment in Mice

The survival results were especially pronounced in the pancreatic cancer model. As many as 90% of treated mice remained alive ...

Scientists develop microRNA-based gene therapy that halts ALS progression in mice

A single IV injection of a microRNA-based biologic developed by Guangping Gao, Ph.D., Robert H. Brown Jr., DPhil, MD, Jun Xie ...

Experimental plague vaccine strategy protects mice with missing key immune defenses

The plague has killed more people than World War II. The bacterium Yersinia pestis (Yp), which causes plague, has triggered ...
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A New Plague Vaccine Strategy Protected Mice From a Deadly Lung Infection

The plague never really went away. Nearly seven centuries after the Black Death, the same bacterial species, Yersinia pestis, still infects people each year—3,248 reported cases worldwide from 2010 to ...