Dutch scientists have discovered hidden salivary glands that could ease cancer treatment side effects in the head and neck ...

A large team of cancer researchers in The Netherlands has made a surprising new discovery, finding a pair of previously unknown salivary glands. Nestled deep in the back of the nasopharynx, the ...

A new method to keep human lymph node tissue alive and functioning outside the body for several days could give researchers a ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore and the National Cancer Centre Singapore have developed a ...

In a new first, scientists have produced lab-grown, working tear glands that can actually produce tears. "Hopefully in the future, this type of organoid may even be transplantable to patients with ...

Researchers believe they may have found a way to avoid damaging salivary glands during radiotherapy treatment for head and neck cancer -- a discovery that could improve the quality of life of 500,000 ...

Singapore researchers have managed to extend the lifespan of lymph nodes outside the body, allowing them to study how the ...

Here we have developed a novel method of culturing human sebocytes without transformation and using a feeder layer-free culture system to examine the role of the TGFβ pathway in the control of ...

A NEW test has been found to identify head and neck cancers caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) up to 10 years before ...

The test, called HPV-DeepSeek, detects microscopic fragments of HPV DNA that have broken off from a tumor and entered the ...

The human parathyroid gland, which regulates the level of calcium in the blood, probably evolved from the gills of fish, according to researchers from King's College London. Writing in the latest ...