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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University are looking at a highly durable organic pigment, used by humans in...

Credit: University of Groningen The human glutamine transporter ASCT2 is upregulated in several forms of cancer. It is also the...

Credit: John Dickens @ British Antarctic Survey Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have, for the first time, tracked the...

Credit: Snapshot Serengeti A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reports how a cutting-edge...

Credit: Georgia Tech / Karcz / Guberman / Brumfield There's a long way to go before neuroscience can fathom the...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine New evidence suggests a mechanism by which progressive accumulation of Tau protein in brain cells...

Credit: Dui Qin/Xi'an Jiaotong University WASHINGTON, D.C., June 5, 2018 -- Embolization -- the use of various techniques to cut...

Credit: University of Seville The appearance of criteria and emerging pollutants in water is a modern theme that has caused...

Credit: MfN Berlin Neutrons can penetrate deep into a sample without destroying it. In addition, neutrons can also distinguish between...

DURHAM, N.H. - It doesn't matter if it's a forest, a soybean field, or a prairie, all plants take up...

Credit: The University of Akron Ever wonder why paint peels off the wall during summer's high humidity? It's the same...

Credit: Alexandra Kosiba, University of Vermont BURLINGTON, Vt., (June 5, 2018) - Red spruce, for decades the forest equivalent of...

OAK BROOK, Ill. - A combination of digital mammography and tomosynthesis detects 90 percent more breast cancers than digital mammography...

OAK BROOK, Ill. - Medicare beneficiaries who undergo breast cancer screening with mammography are more likely than unscreened women to...

Credit: Endocrine Society WASHINGTON--International experts delve into the latest advances in hormone research and clinical care on the Endocrine Society's...

Credit: Georgia Tech By instructing key immune system cells to accept transplanted insulin-producing islets, researchers have opened a potentially new...

Washington, DC - June 5, 2018 - Dogs are a potential reservoir for a future influenza pandemic, according to a...

Credit: California Sea Grant Even small amounts of running water--less than a gallon per second--could mean the difference between life...

Credit: Carmine Wainman, University of Adelaide Dinosaur-age fossilised remains of tiny organisms normally found in the sea have been discovered...

African-Americans are still much more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than white Americans. A new paper on the HIV/AIDS...