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By Emma Yasinski As cancer cells move through the body, they can gather fatty jackets that protect them from damageJESPER KLAUSEN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Cancer cells that travel through lymphatic fluid – which flushes infection-fighting cells through the body and helps remove cellular debris – may be more likely to seed distant tumours because they pick…

By Michael Marshall Pyrite, a mineral that forms in the sea, traps trace metalsMILLARD H. SHARP / SCIENCE PHOTO Trace metals like iron and copper became rare in the oceans between 2 and 1.2 billion years ago, after having been abundant for the previous billion years. This decrease may have caused a crisis for the…

By Michael Marshall A transmission electron micrograph of a modern bacterium, Helicobacter pylori. This section shows a spherical body and several flagellaBIOMEDICAL IMAGING UNIT, SOUTHAM Some of the earliest microorganisms may have been able to move around under their own power using whip-like “tails”, according to a study of fossils from 3.4 billion years ago.…

Home News (Image: © Shutterstock) The HIV virus can take refuge in the brain even when treated with antiretroviral therapies, only to later infect other organs in the body if that treatment is stopped, a new study in mice and human tissue suggests.Untreated HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, cripples the immune system and leaves…

Hope for a baldness CURE as study shows a solution made of stem cells from fat tissues can trigger hair regrowthResearchers discovered fat cells have growth hormones that can work on hairVolunteers rubbed the new solution into their scalp twice per day for 16 weeksStudy authors say they noticed a 'significant' increase in hair count…