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BALTIMORE - Sept. 20, 2017. University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers are investigating a new approach to treat high-risk...

Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have discovered a genetic alteration that is directly involved in at...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Opening up a new pathway to fight cancer, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Participating in twice-weekly practice of Tibetan yoga may reduce sleep disturbances and improve sleep quality...

Credit: NASA While people protect their eyes from the sun's radiation during a solar eclipse, NASA's Human Research Program (HRP)...

Credit: Kristopher Lappin Scientists say that a large, now extinct, frog called Beelzebufo that lived about 68 million years ago...

Iron is essential for cells to function, but excess iron can damage cells. Accordingly, cells have sophisticated molecular mechanisms to...

Credit: UT Arlington Like the organ itself, data collected about the brain is incredibly complex and requires sophisticated methods to...

Credit: Avery Snyder/University of Washington The Southern Ocean is key to Earth's climate, but the same gusting winds, big waves...

Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University Scientists at ITbM, Nagoya University have synthesized a new bioactive small molecule that has the ability...

Credit: Sandia National Laboratories/Randy Wong ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories won five awards from the 2017 Federal Laboratory Consortium...

Credit: Courtesy of Aronowski lab, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston. While immune cells called neutrophils are known to...

A new five-year grant totaling $5,382,423 to Jackson Laboratory (JAX) Assistant Professor Catherine Kaczorowski will fund research to explore why...

Credit: NIBB One of the central questions in biology is how a cell specifies its size. Because size distribution often...

A highly unusual collaboration between information engineers at Oxford, the Zooniverse citizen science platform and international disaster response organization Rescue...

Credit: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston GALVESTON, Texas - A group of scientists led by Ramkumar Menon...

Credit: Janet Iwasa graphic for Doudna Lab Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts General Hospital have identified...

A new Biological Reviews study provides a comprehensive assessment of how changes to wetlands affect animals, and the authors use...

Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Antibodies are a powerful weapon system in defending our body against invaders such as bacteria...

Credit: Florida Atlantic University Alterations in a naturally occurring chemical in the brain called serotonin have been linked to a...