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Credit: (Image courtesy of Jonathan M. Moch/Harvard SEAS) For more than 15 years, the Chinese government has invested billions of...

Credit: City of Hope DUARTE, Calif. -- Researchers from City of Hope, a world-renowned comprehensive cancer center and independent biomedical...

Research from King's College London has shown for the first time that genetics plays a significant role in whether young...

Credit: Adriana Lowe, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent Research carried out by the University of Kent sheds...

The ability to translate the genetic code into proteins is an essential step in all living organisms. A cornerstone of...

Unicellular parasites belonging to the genus Trypanosoma cause sleeping sickness in humans. Sleeping sickness is a debilitating and potentially lethal...

A global study of women with ovarian cancer has found that two thirds of women had never heard of the...

Credit: Abbott A comprehensive review published in Annals of Medicine confirms low muscle mass is linked to an increased risk...

(Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University) Stars, triangles and pentagons demonstrate the adaptability and robustness of bacterial...

Credit: UZH Ecosystems have a variety of benefits: They provide us with food, water and other resources, as well as...

Credit: Illustration: Yen Strandqvist, Chalmers University of Technology A study led by Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has shown that...

Credit: Dr. Newman SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Comprehensive genetic testing of tumors and non-cancerous tissue from pediatric cancer patients is...

Investigators from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will present new findings at the American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting...

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have discovered a new genetic disease and a method for detecting more unexplained...

Credit: Bruce Blausen via Wikimedia Commons DURHAM, N.C. -- A Duke University research team has found a way to help...

Frailty is a health condition that increases risks of poor health, falls, disability, and death in older adults. Signs of...

CLEMSON, South Carolina - With an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Center for Biomedical Research Excellence,...

Credit: Naoyuki Inagaki The brain can discriminate over one trillion different odors. Once entering the nose, an odor activates olfactory...

Credit: Kessler Foundation Erkut Kucukboyaci, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in Traumatic Brain Injury Research at Kessler Foundation, has been awarded a...

Credit: Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (October 18, 2018) ... The National Science Foundation awarded $1,182,305 to the University of...