Did you know that too much of a good thing can sometimes backfire? Recent research suggests that high levels of folate and vitamin B12, essential nutrients for overall health, may increase the risk of ...

Cancer chemotherapy has long been a blunt instrument. Drugs that can kill tumor cells also ravage healthy tissue, and the ...

November 18, 2009 — Folic acid and vitamin B supplementation was associated with an increase in cancer incidence, cancer mortality, and all-cause mortality in a new analysis with long-term follow-up ...

The limited ability of microrobots to assist drugs in entering cells hinders their therapeutic efficacy. To address this, a research team, reporting in Cyborg and Bionic Systems, has introduced the ...

Prenatal exposure to high-dose folic acid is associated with a greater than twofold increased risk for cancer in children of mothers with epilepsy, new data from a Scandinavian registry of more than 3 ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Heart patients in Norway -- where unlike many countries foods are not enriched with folic acid -- were more likely to die from cancer if they took folic acid and vitamin B12 ...

Genetic alterations lie at the heart of cancer development, but scientists may have been overlooking a powerful driver of these changes - the everyday nutrients that feed our cells. "Most efforts have ...

The limited ability of microrobots to assist drugs in entering cells hinders their therapeutic efficacy. To address this, the cancer-targeting molecule folic acid (FA) was introduced to microrobots to ...

Folic acid supplements could help reduce the size of precancerous lesions in the larynx, or even protect against them, researchers claim. Smokers are particularly prone to these lesions and might ...

High-dose folic acid is protective against congenital malformations if the mother is at particular risk of having a child with congenital malformations. Treatment with antiseizure medication in ...