Human papillomaviruses, or HPVs, can cause dangerous infections in the skin and mucous membranes and may lead to cancer. Vaccines that prevent mucosal HPV infections aren't effective against cutaneous ...

(CN) — Attacking recurrent prostate cancer may now be easier after researchers discovered a compound that appears to stunt the disease's growth. In a study published Monday in the journal Nature ...

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a chemical compound that interferes with a key feature of many viruses that allows the viruses to invade human cells.

Researchers at the University of British Colombia’s Life Sciences Institute have identified a compound that can potentially halt infections associated with various coronaviruses, including all ...

Brazilian researchers have developed a synthetic compound that has the potential to treat malaria and block its transmission.

Irritable bowel syndrome, chronic itching, asthma and migraine are in many cases hard-to-treat conditions. They have in common that they are triggered by an excessive immune response—which in severe ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis have designed a drug-like compound which effectively blocks a critical step in the malaria parasite life cycle ...