Cape Town -- Hopes for an effective new combination treatment for sleeping sickness have been challenged by the discovery of resistance to two of the drugsSleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis, is one of Africa's most deadly and neglected diseases, transmitted by the bite of the tset  More …

UCLA scientists have identified for the first time a cell-of-origin for human prostate cancer, a discovery that could result in better predictive and diagnostics tools and the development of new and more effective targeted treatments for the diseaseThe researchers, from UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensiv  More …

SOUTH BEND -- Marvin Miller, a chemistry professor at the University of Notre Dame, has received a $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for tuberculosis researchMiller and his research group aim to understand TB's essential iron sequestration machinery and develop novel anti-T  More …