Health and Medicine

Study adds evidence for infectious agents’ role in sarcoidosis, an inflammatory condition that can lead to respiratory failure and death.

Environmental toxins may contribute to endometriosis-related infertility by disrupting endometrial response to progesterone.

Green tea may lower risk of some digestive cancers.

The structural architecture of the reovirus attachment protein is required for efficient reovirus infection of host cells.

A protein normally known to promote cell death found to encourage survival of blood forming cells.

The stomach bug Helicobacter pylori increases forms of a protein that promote tumor development, perhaps explaining how it elevates risk for gastric cancer.

Two newly identified gene variants linked to breast cancer may aid in predicting disease risk and targeting screening and prevention strategies.