JUPITER, FL – June 7, 2016 – Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have been...

Philadelphia, PA, June 8, 2016 – A new technology suitable for practical clinical testing can detect KRAS gene mutations in...

Credit: Jonathan Cohen/Binghamton University BINGHAMTON, NY – A new disposable battery that folds like an origami ninja star could power...

Through a detailed study of leukaemia cells from more than 200 children, a research group at Lund University in Sweden...

Increasingly, researchers are designing robots with forms and functions that defy our expectation of what a machine can be or...

Researchers have built a model to investigate the metastasis of cancer by examining the metabolism of breast epithelial cells and...

MIT chemists have devised a new way to synthesize a complex molecular structure that is shared by a group of...

HOUSTON – (June 6, 2016) – A Rice University study has found a link between emotional stress and diabetes, with...

In a meta-analysis of hundreds of clinical trials involving thousands of patients, researchers at University of California San Diego School...

Credit: Tomas Hasing ITHACA, NY– When gardeners look at a petunia, they see the vibrant and versatile blooms of the...

At the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2016, researchers present results of three clinical trials using new...

Chronic wounds cause nearly 80,000 lower leg amputations annually in the U.S. alone and are associated with an increased likelihood...

Credit: Brass Lab WORCESTER, MA – Eight weeks after receiving their first samples of Zika virus, scientists at the University...

Intestinal stem cells are among the most rapidly dividing cells in the body, busily creating new cells to replace the...

Compared to other mammals, humans have the largest cerebral cortex. A sheet of brain cells that folds in on itself...

Blacks between the ages of 45 and 54 die of strokes at a rate that is three times greater than...

A person’s genetic makeup plays a role in autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis that develop when the body is...

Eating walnuts may change gut bacteria in a way that suppresses colon cancer, researchers led by UConn Health report in...

Credit: Babraham Institute Use of a new technique developed at the Babraham Institute has allowed researchers to take an in-depth...

For a long time dismissed as “junk DNA”, we now know that also the regions between the genes fulfil vital...