Have you ever wondered if your dad's fight with prostate cancer means you could face the same reality? Perhaps your family has several members who have struggled with obesity and you wonder if it's something you inherited or if it's caused by the environment.

UCLA researchers devise new method to identify disease markers, a key step toward personalized medicine.

New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has shed light on how chronic stress and obesity may contribute to type 2 diabetes. The findings point the finger at an unexpected biological perpetrator – the breakdown of fat.

With antibiotic resistance on the rise, scientists are looking for innovative ways to combat bacterial infections.

Eve, an artificially-intelligent ‘robot scientist’ could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society journal Interface. The team has demonstrated the success of the approach as Eve discovered that a compound shown to have anti-cancer properties might also be used in the fight against malaria. 

A Washington University in St. Louis drug discovery program has received three grants totaling more than $5 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop new therapeutics for respiratory diseases. The target illnesses range from the common cold to life-threatening lung disease. 

Cataract is one of the most common eye diseases, becoming more prevalent as people age. Over half of adults in the United States develop cataracts before age 80 and more than six million have undergone surgery to prevent vision loss caused by the clouding of the eye lens.* 

Research on whipworms has implications for human health and animal conservation.

Enzymes are catalysts that speed up chemical reactions in living organisms and control many cellular biological processes by converting a molecule, or substrate, into a product used by the cell. For scientists, understanding details of how enzymes work is essential to the discovery of drugs to cure diseases and treat disorders.

Research published in MedCrave Online Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics.