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November 1, 2018 - The key to lasting protection against influenza may be in your bones. The cells that naturally...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center When comparing standard-of-care surgical options for women with early-stage cervical cancer, two studies led by...

When humans cut contiguous tropical forests into smaller fragments, ecologists say, forests along the edges of those fragments tend to...

Credit: Matt Miller Patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive cancer of the blood, often are treated with stem...

Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy Transportation--Going with the flow Self-driving cars promise to keep traffic moving...

PHILADELPHIA - Penn Medicine emergency department physicians are calling for more readily available testing strips to identify the presence of...

Multiple myeloma (MM) is the second most common type of blood cancer where cancer cells accumulate in the bone marrow,...

If you want to understand how the cell membrane works, Adam Cohen says, look no further than your kitchen. Cohen,...

Credit: Reproduced with permission from reference 1 © 2018 John Wiley and Sons The lack of tools to be able...

KEY FINDINGS UCLA researchers have discovered a new protein factor that contributes to a fibroblast cell's ability to migrate to...

Mercury is an incredibly stubborn toxin. Once it is emitted from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants, among other sources,...

Credit: Kanako Niimori-Kita A research group from Kumamoto University, Japan has discovered a new neurogenic mechanism responsible for brain development....

Credit: Chen Z, et al. (2018) Cancer-causing human papillomaviruses (HPVs) diverged from their most recent common ancestors approximately half a...

Credit: Jacob Arthur Pritchard for The Rockefeller University For decades, doctors have been using antibiotics to fight tuberculosis (TB). And...

A multi-institutional research team, led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,...

Credit: QUT Media QUT's reef protector robot is set to become 'mother' to hundreds of millions of baby corals in...

GALVESTON, Texas -A collaborative group of researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the Faculty of...

The cellular nutrient glutamine launches a metabolic signaling pathway that promotes the function of some immune system T cells and...

The world's smallest flightless bird can be found on Inaccessible Island in the middle of the South Atlantic. Less than...

Portola Valley, Calif., November 1, 2018 - Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a national organization funding research to make Lyme disease...