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Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma team of chemists has developed a new antibiotic formulation to fight the...

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Personal Robotics Lab PITTSBURGH–Clutter is a special challenge for robots, but new Carnegie Mellon University software...

As the human brain develops, neurons leave their birthplace and take a trip to distant locations. Once they reach their...

While investigating a potential therapeutic target for the ERK1 and 2 pathway, a widely expressed signaling molecule known to drive...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Human immunodeficiency virus is known to be a highly variable virus that adapts to a person’s immune...

Nematode worms may not be from Mars or Venus, but they do have sex-specific circuits in their brains that cause...

EAST LANSING, Mich. – A rare, severe form of pulmonary hypertension, which up until now, has only been classified as...

A mutation that affects the proteins that package DNA–without changing the DNA itself–can cause a rare form of cancer, according...

A team of MIT and Harvard University students who invented a smartphone-connected sensor that detects lung cancer from a single...

A team led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reported a research trifecta. They discovered a...

MADISON, Wis. — A single defect in a gene that codes for a histone — a “spool” that wraps idle...

A class of drug that inhibits estrogen production and is used to treat breast cancer has been found to quickly...

Credit: Aniket Kittur, Carnegie Mellon University Crowdsourcing has brought us Wikipedia and ways to understand how HIV proteins fold. It...

A new UBC-developed method to isolate cancer cells that have escaped from a tumour could soon pave the way for...

Signaling a potential new approach to treating diabetes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard...

Antibiotics have proven to be a double-edged sword: capable of killing a range of bacteria that cause infections, but also...

Credit: Sato and Woolley Researchers from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, have discovered a new factor in the escalation of seizures:...

In Alzheimer’s disease, plaques of amyloid beta protein accumulate in the brain, damaging connections between neurons. Now, researchers at University...

The conventional wisdom about cancer cells is that they are masters of camouflage, invisible to the immune system. However, occasionally,...

ARLINGTON, Va.–Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) Gen. Robert B. Neller recently visited the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to...