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Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Discovery of a dual role played by the enzyme phosphoglycerate kinase 1 (PGK1) may indicate...

February 23, 2017 (Cambridge, MA) -- Proteins do most of the work inside the human body, supporting the structure, function,...

Kevin Watanabe-Smith, Ph.D., likens cell mutations to typos in text messages. "Mutations are part of life. They are mistakes in...

(Boston)--Maunil Bhatt, MD, a post graduate resident in the Department of Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston...

Credit: Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University A research team from the United States and Canada has developed and successfully tested new...

Credit: Felix Rey, Pasteur Institute Sexual reproduction and viral infections actually have a lot in common. According to new research,...

Credit: Kate Broadley and Clayton Lamb EDMONTON (Under embargo until Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 10 a.m. MST)--In the middle...

Credit: KU Leuven - Alex van Vliet PERK is known to detect protein folding errors in the cell. Researchers at...

Credit: NOAA In movies and TV shows, dolphins are often portrayed as heroes who save humans through remarkable feats of...

Credit: Cai et al., Astrophysical Journal (Figure 2) Astronomers have found an enormous, glowing blob of gas in the distant...

Credit: Jeffrey Schifman/Columbia Engineering Professor Julia Hirschberg has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the...

Credit: Credits: NASA/W. Hrybyk In just two years' time, a team of NASA engineers accomplished what some thought impossible: the...

Credit: UC Creative Services/Andrew Higley The buzzword in drone research is autonomous -- having the unmanned aerial vehicle do most...

Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS -- Thanks to recent scientific advances and plunging costs in genetic sequencing, consumers now...

Credit: Biswajit Datta, Mandar Deshmukh Metals have a large density of electrons and to be able to see the wave...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 23, 2017--Overwhelming evidence from the biomedical literature shows that adeno-associated...

Credit: AP Commercial Photography For the first time a "tipping point" molecular link between the blood sugar glucose and Alzheimer's...

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute In 2015, in partnership with NASA's New Horizons mission and the...

Credit: Kota Kumagai, Utsunomiya University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a completely new type of display that creates 3D images...

PHILADELPHIA -- (Feb. 23, 2017) -- Scientists at The Wistar Institute have shown that an anti-diabetic drug can inhibit the...