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(Rutgers University) Explosive volcanic eruptions in the tropics can lead to El Niño events, those notorious warming periods in the...

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) By scanning the brains of healthy volunteers, researchers at the National Institutes of...

EUGENE, Ore. -- Oct. 3, 2017 -- In a special experiment, zebrafish with defective immune systems swam and dined with...

Scientists have identified that a tiny protein, which plays a major role in the replication of foot-and-mouth disease virus, demonstrates...

Credit: Authors: Sankar Chatterjee, Christopher R. Scotese, and Sunil Bajpai and The Geological Society of America Boulder, Colo., USA: The...

The first gene therapy for cancer, approved by the Food Drug Administration in August, will transform the treatment of a...

New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF) has awarded NJIT engineer Eon Soo Lee a $50,000 Innovation Grant to develop a nanotechnology-enhanced...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that the catalytic activity of the fly enzyme Trr and mammalian MLL3/MLL4 -- members of...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 29, 2017) -- Of the 14 million cancer survivors in the United States, a significant number experience...

Genetic changes that help lung cancer thrive also make it vulnerable to a promising experimental drug, according to a study...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 2, 2017 - A genetic test developed at UPMC proved highly sensitive at determining which pancreatic cysts are...

Beijing, Sept. 21, 2017: The Summer 2017 issue, a special issue entitled "Primary care and cancer", Guest Editor: Li Li,...

Credit: Microsure MAASTRICHT, Oct. 2, 2017 - Plastic surgeons at Maastricht University Medical Center have used a robotic device to...

Ben-Gurion University Announces Collaboration With Ram Group to Develop a New Diagnostic Sensor for Earlier Diagnosis of Diseases BEER-SHEVA, Israel,...

By carefully tracing a line of at least 2 millimeters outside of and around the edges of a mole that...

WASHINGTON -- A study that teases apart the biological mechanisms by which human papillomaviruses (HPV) cause cancer has found what...

Bottom Line: The number of alterations detected in the DNA collected from blood samples (liquid biopsies) of cancer patients treated...

In a first-of-its-kind study, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that a blood sample, or liquid...

Biological clocks are ticking everywhere throughout our body. They trigger the release of the hormone melatonin during sleep, favour the...

Credit: Center for Theoretical Biological Physics/Rice University If you're the motor protein up front, be prepared to do the heavy...