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Faculty of Medicine scientists have created a "Franken-platelet" – a supercharged blood cell – that might be capable of healing...

A gene which forms part of our body's first line of defence against infection may be associated with an increased...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are pollutants which come from burning fossil fuels, fires, oil spillages, and other anthropogenic and natural sources....

Credit: photo/©: Stowers Institute Nominated by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB), chromosome...

Credit: Franscisco Barriga, IRB Barcelona The intestine has a high rate of cellular regeneration due to the wear and tear...

Credit: Tomas Persson Without having tasted a specific new juice mix before, an orangutan in a Swedish zoo has enough...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 13, 2017–A new study of bone formation from stem cells...

Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 28, 2017 — Georgia Tourassi of Oak...

Credit: © Chris Smart, NYSAES, Geneva NY A missing link in the complex molecular pathway by which plants resist pathogens...

Credit: Image by Steven Jasinski An ancient sink hole in eastern Tennessee holds the clues to an important transitional time...

Credit: Wolfgang Rutkies Jena (Germany) With the arrival of spring many insects leave their winter quarters. Presently swarms of the...

Credit: Osaka University Scientists at the Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University, Japan, report a new molecular mechanism that...

Lung researcher Dr Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat has won a competitive $1.225 million Viertel Fellowship for an ambitious research program to advance...

Credit: Stephanie Schopmeyer, UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science MIAMI–A new study found that Caribbean staghorn corals (Acropora...

Credit: Kylla Benes / UCI Irvine, Calif., Aug. 9, 2016 — The Gulf of Maine coastline, historically home to one...

Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS Daniel Packwood, Junior Associate Professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), is improving...

Credit: Feichen Yang DURHAM, N.C. — A cartilage-mimicking material created by researchers at Duke University may one day allow surgeons...

Credit: Lena Mustonen/Umeå University A survey of nearly 1000 households in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand showed that six...

Credit: Photo courtesy Three Rivers Energy. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 2018 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center In a randomized, Phase III trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD...