Body size and excess weight, conventionally assessed using body mass index (BMI), are well-established risk factors for many types of cancer. However, new research to be presented at this year's ...

Scientists in the US who do research on mRNA technology worry their funding may be cut under President Trump. mRNA technology is the basis for COVID- and other vaccines and could play a role in cancer ...

Despite weight loss and glycemic control, experts caution that type 2 diabetes remission is not a cure and that pancreatic ...

A vaccine kept patients free of pancreatic cancer for years, yet new reports say the NIH is advising against mentioning mRNA tech in grants.

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder caused by dysfunction in the pancreas, the organ responsible for regulating blood sugar levels. Within the pancreas, islet cells secrete insulin to lower blood sugar.

Ironically, as fashion embraces (and creates) faux womanly figures by design, the actual bodies inside the clothes are ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic parasites borne by insects such as the tsetse fly.

Willem Linders received some bad news in September 2024: pancreatic cancer. His illness is incurable. Nevertheless, the ...

Encouraging preclinical data supporting the use of DNase-based technology to target NETosis and address difficult to treat cancers ...

Fatty pancreas disease, characterized by intra-pancreatic fat deposition, is more prevalent than diabetes, pancreatitis, and ...

A team of German scientists and biotech company Dynamic42 have jointly developed a ‘tumour-on-chip’ model of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), allowing insights into interactions between tumour ...

Centre for 3D models of Health and Disease, Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London W1W 7TY, U.K. Centre for 3D models of Health and Disease, Division of ...