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MINNEAPOLIS- June 29, 2018- The National Kidney Registry has awarded its 2018 "Excellence in Teamwork" Award to the University of...

CLEVELAND, Ohio--In the first known study of how amputees use advanced sensory-enabled prostheses outside the lab, subjects used a mechanical...

Credit: Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab (MRL) Enabled by a generous gift from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, the...

Credit: Girirajan Laboratory, Penn State Genes located in a large chromosomal aberration associated with autism interact with each other to...

LOWELL, Mass. - The federal agency tasked with solving critical health threats to Americans has chosen the Massachusetts Medical Device...

Clinical laboratories often rely on medical articles and public information on gene disease associations in determining the genes to include...

WASHINGTON--The Endocrine Society today issued a Clinical Practice Guideline advising healthcare providers on how to diagnose and treat the endocrine...

When the American Society for Horticultural Science convenes its annual conference this summer, some discussion will involve matters of concern...

Genetic ancestry tests are often advertised as a tool to uncover new connections to diverse cultures and ancestries, but new...

A few years ago, Ian Swinburne, HMS research fellow in systems biology, noticed something odd while conducting a time-lapse microscopy...

Credit: penn State Dramatic improvements have been made to the process of converting carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, to methanol,...

The loss of anatomical features is a frequent evolutionary event. For example, humans and other great apes have lost their...

Charles Lieber and his group are rewriting the rules of how scientists study retinal cells, and they're doing it with...

The sexual habits of Trichophyton rubrum, the fungus that causes athlete's foot and other kinds of skin and nail infections,...

Credit: Ben Stanger, Katelyn Byrne, Perelman School of Medicine PHILADELPHIA - So-called "hot" tumors filled with T cells are often...

We humans are the only primates that can flexibly control the pitch of our voices. This melodic control is not...

Credit: Roberto Keller A new study, to be published in Current Biology* on 28 June, proposes new strategies to induce...

In the largest study to date that examined concerns of adult survivors of childhood cancer, a substantial proportion of survivors...

Credit: Tim Wacher, ZSL A pioneering new project trials fingerprinting techniques to battle pangolin poaching. Forensic fingerprinting techniques will now...

Credit: Leibniz-IZW Scientists of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz IZW) in Berlin analysed the spatial behaviour...