Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have discovered a new way to kill cancer cells by blocking their ...

Researchers have uncovered a promising cancer treatment strategy by targeting a mitochondrial protein called peroxiredoxin-3 (PRX3). PRX3 normally acts as a cleanup system inside cancer cells, ...

It's meant to boost your health, but Minnesota doctors caution that the alternative health practice of drinking hydrogen peroxide can send you straight to an emergency room. Six people in the past ...

One of the more dangerous medical myths I frequently see in the ER is the widespread belief by patients that copious amounts of hydrogen peroxide should be used to clean cuts and scrapes of any size.

Peroxidases are enzymes that break down hydrogen peroxide in organisms. Since their discovery in 1998, the electron source of "peroxiredoxin 6-type" peroxidases for this reaction remained unclear. The ...