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BROOKLYN, New York, Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - Spurred by the rapidly expanding use of in-home tests for "omic" -...

Researchers from the UCLA School of Dentistry and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have been awarded $5...

A study comparing DNA and RNA data from Nigerian breast cancer patients to patients in a United States database found...

A team of clinicians, dietitians and researchers has created an automated program to screen for malnutrition in hospitalized children, providing...

The amount of plastic washing up onto the shores of remote South Atlantic islands is 10 times greater than it...

Credit: Oslo kommunes kunstsamling (City of Oslo Art Collection). Outdoor bronze statues make an important contribution to the culture of...

Credit: Intelligent Fingerprinting A revolutionary drug test developed from research carried out at the University of East Anglia can detect...

A root extract of the Fallopia multiflora, or Chinese knotweed, has special properties: it enables the nematode C. elegans to...

Scientific developments in the field of synthetic biology have often given rise to public debate on the possible need for...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have successfully incorporated "photosensitizers" into a range of polymers, giving those materials the ability...

Credit: (Courtesy: Renugah Naidu and Gowtham Subramanian, Singapore University of Technology & Design) Malaria remains an economic and health burden...

Dr. Nikolaus Wenger of Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin has been awarded a Freigeist Fellowship to support the development of brain-computer...

Credit: Micaiah Ward TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Scorpions can be found at every corner of the globe and on six of...

Retroviruses have colonised vertebrate hosts for millions of years by inserting their genes into host genomes, enabling their inheritance through...

Credit: D. Caetano-Anolles Owing to present-day armed conflicts, the general public is well aware of the terrifying effects of chemical...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have unraveled a mechanism of resistance to EZH2 inhibitors in ovarian cancers with mutations in...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Next time you're stung by a wasp or a honeybee, consider the elegantly designed stinger that caused...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Monday, October 8, 2018, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company specializing in the application of...

A new research project underway at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is investigating how, and under what conditions, viruses can persist...

A recently-approved breast cancer drug could be used to target and treat a life-threatening leukaemia, new research has revealed. Experts...