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Washington, D. C. Nov. 28, 2016 -- There's an old farmer's tale that says, "On a quiet night you can...

Credit: University of Southampton Researchers at the University of Southampton have engineered cells with a 'built-in genetic circuit' that produces...

Black men are three times more likely to develop prostate cancer than other demographics, yet black men are consistently underrepresented...

Credit: DGIST DGIST announced that a senior researcher Jung Min-kyung at Division of Nano and Energy Convergence Research has developed...

Researchers at VIB and Ghent University have developed a tool to diagnose Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF). Particularly common among Mediterranean...

Credit: Professor Hiroyuki Oshiumi The innate immune system in mammals defends against infection from viruses and other microbial infections. Unfortunately,...

Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine A common cause of hair loss and breakage known as acquired trichorrhexis nodosa, or TN --often...

AMES, Iowa - A defect in a gene that produces dopamine in the brain appears to accelerate the onset of...

To "turn off" particular regions of genes or protect them from damage, DNA strands can wrap around small proteins, called...

Credit: Radiological Society of North America CHICAGO - In the largest-ever study on screening mammography outcomes, researchers found that there...

Credit: Garyfallia Pagonis of Massachusetts Eye and Ear. Boston, Mass. -- A new study led by researchers at Massachusetts Eye...

Certain medications are considered high risk in elders. In a recent study of 287 individuals ?65 years who experienced a...

(PHILADELPHIA) - How does a cancer cell burn calories? New research from Thomas Jefferson University shows that breast cancer cells...

The first HIV vaccine efficacy study to launch anywhere in seven years is now testing whether an experimental vaccine regimen...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A new technique developed by MIT researchers reveals the inner details of photonic crystals, synthetic materials whose...

Nov. 25, 2016, Lebanon, N.H. - Using state-of-the-art molecular biology and statistical approaches, researchers at Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center...

The team of scientists from King's College London and Imperial College London tested a high-fat diet, containing a fermentable carbohydrate,...

Credit: Lauren Brent The social status of a rhesus macaque affects the nature of its immune system, where low-status animals...

Researchers have identified a mechanism by which cells undergo reprogramming in live mice, a phenomenon that had previously been poorly...

Credit: Photo by Lauren Brent, University of Exeter DURHAM, N.C. -- The richest and poorest Americans differ in life expectancy...