Autoimmune Diseases
> Researchers have developed the first animal model that mimicks the eye complications associated with Graves' disease. The model could help scientists find better treatments for the thyroid disease. Release
Cancer
> A story in Salon questions whether new cancer therapies are based on bad science. Story
> Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, have fashioned a more effective method of killing tumor cells after identifying a protein that certain high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells need to survive. News
Infectious Diseases
> New research by the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance and the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health estimates that a minimum of 320,000 viruses may await discovery from mammals alone. Release