Advanced colorectal cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among young American men and the second most common cause worldwide. Most of these patients develop liver metastases as the cancer progresses. Despite advances in surgical treatments to eliminate the cancer, many of these patients will experience a recurrence of the cancer in the liver. […]
Areas of the brain that help a person distinguish between what is true, and what imagined was discovered in a new study conducted by UCL researchers. Studies, published, have shown that the region in the brain known as a spindle corner – located behind the temples, on the bottom of the temporal lobe of the […]
The new study conducted by scientists from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science Tokyo has discovered the surprising role of calcium in shaping the earliest molecular structures of life. Their discoveries suggest that calcium ions can selectively affect how primitive polymers are formed, throwing light on a long -term secret: how […]
Insulin resistance precedes and predicts the beginning of type 2 diabetes (DM2), a chronic disease that causes high incidence and mortality around the world. In the affected people, insulin is not able to facilitate glucose capture by tissues and organs, which leads to an increase in blood glucose (chronic hyperglycemia). Because the skeletal muscle is […]