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Credit: Jeff Kremer For decades, scientists have tried to halt cancer by blocking nutrients from reaching tumor cells, in essence...

Patients who experience anxiety and depression after being diagnosed with advanced lung cancer are more likely to die sooner, according...

Credit: Evan Krape/University of Delaware Much like criminal forensic scientists use fingerprints to identify guilty parties at crime scenes, the...

Credit: The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL - Jan. 24, 2017 - Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps...

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Many current medical and scientific practices involve the analysis of highly complicated images, such as magnetic resonance...

Credit: (Photo by Randy Montoya) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- An outbreak is like a wildfire; the sooner it's caught, the easier...

Portola Valley, Calif., Jan. 24, 2017 - Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a national organization funding research to make Lyme disease...

The overall rate of death from cancer declined about 20 percent between 1980 and 2014; however, there are distinct clusters...

SEATTLE - The rate at which Americans die from cancers varies dramatically by where they live, according to a new...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Pancreatic cancer has long been one of the hardest to treat. Now, in a new...

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 24, 2017) - Receptors on the surface of our cells enable a wide variety...

Credit: Childen's Hospital of Philadelphia It sounds simple and harmless--an electronic sensor attached to a baby's sock that monitors vital...

Credit: Scripps Oceanography/Jaffe Lab for Underwater Imaging Underwater robots developed by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University...

WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Sciences will honor five individuals with awards in recognition of their extraordinary scientific achievements...

Credit: NASA The presence of water on ancient Mars is a paradox. There's plenty of geographical evidence that rivers periodically...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- For the first time, MIT engineers have designed sensors that can detect single protein molecules as they...

Credit: Georgetown University WASHINGTON -- An analysis of the New York State's Medicaid expansion, which predated the 2010 Affordable Care...

Washington, DC--Members of the media can now register to cover the latest advances in hormone health and science at ENDO...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The time of day that breast cancer chemotherapy drugs are given affects the amount of damaging inflammation...

Credit: Felderhof WASHINGTON, D.C., Tuesday, January 24, 2017 -- For years, B. Ubbo Felderhof, a professor at the Institute for...