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Obese women with large bellies may be at risk of developing a different subtype of breast cancer than those with...

The largest genomic profiling study ever conducted into a type of brain tumor known as glioma in children has identified...

WASHINGTON -- The Endocrine Society today announced it has selected 14 leaders in the endocrinology field as winners of its...

Leesburg, VA, Sept. 8, 2017 - Pregnancy-associated breast cancer, which is rare but often aggressive, was detected with MRI in...

Did you know that routine mammograms can lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment of breast cancer? Most American women aren't aware...

DURHAM, N.C. -- The Warburg Effect describes a phenomenon in which cancer cells voraciously consume glucose for energy -- something...

Credit: Image courtesy of The JAMA Network copyright 2017 American Medical Association Mesothelioma is a rare and aggressive tumor that,...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A year and half after losing his battle against brain cancer, Chad Carr's legacy lives through...

Although KRAS is one of the major oncogenes associated with aggressive cancers, drugs designed to block KRAS function have not...

A team of Houston Methodist researchers and clinicians received two grants totaling over $15.7 million from the Department of Defense...

Credit: Geir Otto Johansen, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in Europe. Every...

Credit: Ken Catania/Vanderbilt University The shock from a young electric eel feels like accidentally touching a horse fence. A big...

Credit: Kurt Stepnitz EAST LANSING, Mich. - Both civil airlines and the military have successfully used camelina oil blends to...

The breast milk of mothers with premature babies has different amounts of microRNA than that of mothers with babies born...

Credit: Thomas Tarpley Alabama has some of the highest diversity of freshwater snails in the world, but many snails are...

Credit: Victoria O'Connell Like old-growth trees in a forest, old fish in the ocean play important roles in the diversity...

Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego A new study evaluating models of future climate scenarios has led...

Credit: Abby VanMuijen/University of Washington A new nationwide study finds that the U.S. made little progress from 2000 to 2010...

Each year the ERC gives funding to researchers from all over Europe. The so-called ERC Starting Grants of EUR 1.5...

Credit: Peter Neuenschwander During the last twenty years, scientists worked hard to protect and restore the scattered patches of a...