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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...

Credit: Leandro Alonso WASHINGTON, D.C., January 24, 2017 -- Researchers studying the brain have long been interested in its neural...

Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 24, 2017 - Maternal infection during pregnancy increases the risk for psychiatric disorders in the child, but...

Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 24, 2017 -- Certain edible and medicinal mushrooms contain bioactive...

Credit: Dirk Raiser, MPIbC/DESY An interdisciplinary team of researchers has laid the foundations for an entirely new type of photovoltaic...

Credit: CRC Water Sensitive Cities A global charitable foundation has awarded an AUD $14 million grant to an international research...