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The excessive burst of new brain cells after a traumatic head injury that scientists have traditionally believed helped in recovery...

Credit: WEHI.TV/Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research An international research team has shown for the first time that...

A faculty member in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has received a $7.3 million grant for innovative research on...

Credit: Brian Stauffer/University of Illinois Political and agricultural leaders gathered at the University of Illinois today to see transformative work...

A new study published in the journal Nature Communications describes a breakthrough in research related to facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD)....

For several years, medical researchers, doctors and dieticians have known that a low carbohydrate diet and plentiful fat can prevent...

Credit: Alex Ross (Millbrook, NY) In the US, recreational fishing generates over $25 billion annually. Each year, 30 million people...

Amsterdam and Heidelberg, 15 September 2017 - SourceData (sourcedata.embo.org), an open platform from EMBO, designed to make published scientific data...

Credit: Scheme Lab Scheme Lab, a biotech startup incubated at the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Technology (CIETEC), in São...

Insects and plants have an important ancient defence mechanism that helps them to fight viruses. This is encoded in their...

Credit: University of Toronto Mississauga The idea of being bitten by a nearly toothless modern frog or salamander sounds laughable,...

Credit: Michelle Lampe/Wolf Science Center A good example of the connection between cause and effect, is that an object which...

The proteins in human cells are extensively decorated with different types of sugars, a phenomenon called glycosylation. These modifications greatly...

Obese women with large bellies may be at risk of developing a different subtype of breast cancer than those with...

The largest genomic profiling study ever conducted into a type of brain tumor known as glioma in children has identified...

WASHINGTON -- The Endocrine Society today announced it has selected 14 leaders in the endocrinology field as winners of its...

Leesburg, VA, Sept. 8, 2017 - Pregnancy-associated breast cancer, which is rare but often aggressive, was detected with MRI in...

Did you know that routine mammograms can lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment of breast cancer? Most American women aren't aware...

DURHAM, N.C. -- The Warburg Effect describes a phenomenon in which cancer cells voraciously consume glucose for energy -- something...

Credit: Image courtesy of The JAMA Network copyright 2017 American Medical Association Mesothelioma is a rare and aggressive tumor that,...