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Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $30 million award to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The...

Credit: Rachel Wu UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. – One day, our brains will not work the way they used to,...

Credit: Mohammad Ali, 18 Nov 2017 Uganda is among the countries is sub-Saharan Africa where cholera remains a recurring problem,...

Credit: University Hospitals CLEVELAND: The Cornea Society has awarded Jonathan Lass, MD, the Castroviejo Medal, its highest honor. Dr. Lass,...

Materials researchers love sea creatures. Mother-of-pearl provokes ideas for smooth surfaces, clams inspire gluey substances, shark's skin is used to...

Credit: National Cancer Institute Roughly a third of all genes in the mammalian genome are essential for life. A new...

Credit: Professor Hiroyuki Oshiumi The innate immune system in mammals defends against infection from viruses and other microbial infections. Unfortunately,...

ATLANTA — The first breast cancer risk-prediction model based entirely on data from Hispanic women, including whether a woman was...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The key weapon against viruses and bacteria that invade the body is production of antibodies,...

Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly and occurs in all ethnic and racial groups. It...

Credit: Jeff Burrell/WCS Beavers, high elevation streams, and oyster reefs are just three of the weapons in the fight against...

Credit: Drosophila Virtual Expression eXplorer, BIMSB at the MDC After 13 rapid divisions a fertilized fly egg consists of about...

Credit: Schimenti Lab, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. – An existing drug may one day protect premenopausal women from life-altering infertility...

Credit: GLEAM 2.0 Philadelphia, PA, September 11, 2017 – Humans face mounting challenges when it comes to finding ways to...

Anxiety disorders are the most common type of mental illness in the United States. And while much is understood about...

Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Chemicals used as flame retardants that are potentially harmful to humans are found in...

Credit: Tony Goldberg, UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. — If there is anything scientists are certain of when it comes to bats...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2017 — We all know at least one wine snob who goes...

INDIANAPOLIS – When the body encounters an infection, a molecular signaling system ramps up the body's infection-fighting system to produce...

Credit: Thomas Werner Pulling data from 180 different lines of fruit flies, researchers from Michigan Technological University compared resistance to...