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CHICAGO --- The drug palbociclib, used in combination with standard treatment, improved survival for women with hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast...

Credit: Courtesy of Zoo Atlanta Understanding how elephants use their trunks to pick up small objects could lead to robots...

TORONTO, OCTOBER 24, 2018 - Type "slots" into a search engine, and free online games and apps will appear, easily...

Augmented reality (AR), a technology that superimposes computer-generated information on a user's view of the real world, offers a new...

Credit: Purdue University/Erin Easterling WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- More than 60 million people in the U.S. suffer from disorders in...

Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have engineered an antiviral peptide that exploits the Zika...

Boston--Spanish-speaking women encounter unique challenges when receiving notifications regarding their mammogram results and breast density. The findings, which appear in...

Credit: Travis Lab ITHACA, N.Y. - At a time when more than half of male infertility cannot be explained by...

Physician payment models are becoming more complex and the pace of change is increasing, creating challenges for physician practices that...

Another flu season is here, which means another chance for viruses to mutate. Already, most influenza A viruses contain a...

Credit: Paul Logothetis/MUHC In the wake of cannabis legalization, a team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill...

Researchers in Brazil have discovered a new effect of a drug widely used as a chemotherapeutic agent and offered to...

"Clean meat," or meat produced from cultured animal cells, promises enormous benefits for animal welfare and the environment. But to...

The mechanism leading to development of type 1 diabetes remains a mystery, hampering the ability to find new ways to...

A text mining analysis of academic and news articles related to mental health issues in higher education finds that racism,...

Credit: Insilico Medicine, Inc. Wednesday, October 24, 2018, Boston - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug discovery...

Credit: Virginia Institute of Marine Science. An annual model-based report on "dead-zone" conditions in the Chesapeake Bay during 2018 indicates...

Credit: orres-Águila, Et. al. Researchers from the University of Barcelona in collaboration with a team from the Zoological Station Anton...

Credit: UA Sarver Heart Center Because only half of the people in the United States diagnosed with high blood pressure...

Credit: None We know that antibiotics treat bacterial infections. We also know why they work. Tetracycline antibiotics, for example, stop...