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Credit: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA - January 19, 2017 - A team led by scientists at The...

BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 19, 2017 - Looking for the latest news on nutrition, the human body, early-stage biomedical advances or...

Credit: Illustration credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech Is there anybody out there? The question of whether Earthlings are alone in the universe has...

(Stanford University) New research shows people in underdeveloped parts of the world are not as likely to complete massive open...

Credit: Ajay Narendra They are famed for their highly developed work ethic ... now a study shows ants' navigational skills...

Credit: Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (January 19, 2017) ... The Mackenzie Dike Swarm, an ancient geological feature covering an...

Are humans taking more resources from the Earth than the planet can safely produce? The answer lies partly in whether...

Credit: Adrian Radocea, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Silicon crystals are the semiconductors most commonly used to make...

Credit: Credit: University at Buffalo. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- As cells age and stop dividing, their fat content changes, along with...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified a genetic promoter of cancer that drives a major form of...

Use of an advanced form of the commonly used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method to analyze circulating tumor cells (CTCs)...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--Just as an invasive weed might need nutrient-rich soil and water to grow, many cancers rely...

New Orleans, LA - The Department of Information Technology at LSU Health New Orleans successfully competed for its first National...

Credit: Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Matthew McGill of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has been...

Credit: Frank Wojciechowski Raising further questions about privacy on the internet, researchers from Princeton and Stanford universities have released a...

Credit: Kazan Federal University Researchers at Rice University and Kazan Federal University in Russia have found a way to extract...

A growing body of evidence indicates that the trillions of microbes that live on and inside our bodies affect our...

Credit: Image of Great Boiling Spring by Brian Hedlund, UNLV. Protein structure and composite image by Sergey Ovchinnikov, UW For...

The age of big data has seen a host of new techniques for analyzing large data sets. But before any...

Credit: Robert Boston A new technique will help biologists tinker with genes, whether the goal is to turn cells into...