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NEW YORK, NY and SANTA BARBARA, CA -- The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and the Glenn Foundation for...

Credit: University of Houston With the click of a button, Vivien Coulson-Thomas removes the cadaver's skin. Another click and she...

NEW YORK, NY--The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), with support from the Irene Diamond Fund, is pleased to announce...

Credit: Michal Vadai When Michal Vadai's experiment worked for the first time, she jumped out of her seat. Vadai, a...

Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory photo. LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Nov. 7, 2018--Laser-based 'optical tweezers' could levitate uranium and plutonium particles,...

Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass. - With a $1.08 million contract award from the United States Advanced Battery Consortium...

Credit: University of Waterloo Researchers at the University of Waterloo have taken a huge step towards making smart devices that...

Credit: Mattosaurus via wikimeida, public domain Understanding how and when cells divide is important to figuring out everything from how...

Credit: The Centenary Institute A study led by researchers at the Centenary Institute has identified a drug currently used to...

Credit: Jan Kern, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory In a new article published in Nature an international research team presents high-resolution...

(University of Washington) Research from the University of Washington is showing how Magellanic penguins fare during the winter months when...

ANN ARBOR--Evolutionary theory predicts that the fitness of an individual is maximized when the genetic differences between its parents are...

Credit: Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are perfecting an innovative way to track the...

The human genome has its own proofreaders and editors, and their handiwork is not as haphazard as once thought. When...

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Terra satellite provided a visible image of a...

On Oct. 23, a team from the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility was honored at the 2018...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The HER2 gene is a well-known driver of breast cancer, where changes in this...

A pioneering technique designed to spot differences between immune cells in tumours could speed the development of cancer treatments, research...

Fresh insights into how zebrafish repair their damaged nerve connections could aid the development of therapies for people with spinal...

Credit: Melanie Lloyd The culprit might be many microbes. Since 2013, a gruesome and mysterious disease has killed millions of...