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For the last decade, scientists have deployed increasingly capable underwater robots to map and monitor pockets of the ocean to...

The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a growing problem in the United States and the world. New findings by researchers...

A research team led by UC Berkeley engineers has developed a new smartphone microscope that uses video to automatically detect...

Washington State University researchers have found a way to make jet fuel from a common black fungus found in decaying...

Researchers studying how the brain makes decisions have, for the first time, recorded the moment-by-moment fluctuations in brain signals that...

The effectiveness of cancer vaccines could be dramatically boosted by first loading the cancer antigens into silicon microparticles, report scientists...

Cells that relay information from the ear to the brain can change in significant ways in response to the noise...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have used exosomes -- tiny bubbles of protein and fat...

During each cell division, more than 3.3 billion base pairs of genomic DNA have to be duplicated and segregated accurately...

Researchers at the University of Houston have created an optical lens that can be placed on an inexpensive smartphone to...

A biochemist from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is a co-author on a paper in...

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the main component of our genetic material. It is formed by combining four parts: A, C,...

A Tufts University study sheds new light on the process by which DNA repair occurs within the cell. In research...

When the common chemotherapy drugs cisplatin or oxaliplatin hit cancer cells, they damage DNA so that the cells can't replicate....

"The word, virus, connotes morbidity and mortality, but that bad reputation is not universally deserved," said Marilyn Roossinck, PhD, Professor...

A study tying the aging process to the deterioration of tightly packaged bundles of cellular DNA could lead to methods...

Every day, thousands of people need donated blood. But only blood without A- or B-type antigens, such as type O,...

The human immune system is poised to spring into action at the first sign of a foreign invader, but it...

Implantable device could allow doctors to test cancer drugs in patients before prescribing chemotherapy. More than 100 drugs have been...

Most of the time, we learn only gradually, incrementally building connections between actions or events and outcomes. But there are...