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Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(Aug. 9, 2018) Antibiotic use is driving an epidemic of antibiotic resistance, as more susceptible bacteria...

Credit: IPC PAS SERS, an extremely sensitive laboratory method of analysing chemical composition, is set to become widespread decades after...

Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON - (August 9, 2018) - When it comes to diet in the Western world of overconsumption where...

Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Ashleigh Schaffer, PhD, assistant professor of genetics at Case Western Reserve University...

(PHILADELPHIA) - Certain molecular drivers of cancer growth are "undruggable" - it's been nearly impossible to develop chemicals that would...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - August 9, 2018 - Although immunotherapy is seen as a very promising treatment for cancer, currently only...

Previous research has revealed that patients with acute myeloid leukemia who also have a particular mutation in a gene called...

ITHACA, N.Y. - New research provides details of how the structure of the HIV-1 virus is assembled, findings that offer...

The federal Clean Air Act and associated environmental regulations have driven steep declines in air pollution emissions over the past...

Credit: Kanazawa University Uncovering the expansion processes of human habitats in the past is of great importance for understanding the...

Credit: IBS Every day you get a day older. So do plants. While the biological daily clock ticks, time passes...

Credit: HKUST Synapses, the structure that allows neurons to pass signals to one another, are essential to neuronal function. Proper...

Vets have developed a blood test that quickly spots early signs of liver disease in dogs, a study suggests. Experts...

Agriculture and food systems policies should ensure more than just the supply of food. Decision-makers must make a paradigm shift...

A new area in depression research suggests dysfunction in mitochondria -- the main source of energy for cells -- could...

People who develop abnormally frequent cases of a skin cancer known as basal cell carcinoma appear to be at significantly...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The previous decade has seen dramatic advances in the treatment of non-small cell lung...

Credit: Copyright Clare Prebble, Marine Megafauna Foundation and University of Southampton Truckee (California), Aug. 9, 2018: Whale sharks, the world's...

Credit: Jesse Miller/UC Davis As increasingly hot and severe wildfires scorch the West, some lichen communities integral to conifer forests...

Immunologists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg have demonstrated that ILC2, a group of rare lymphoid cells, play a key role in the...