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Patients with a rare bone cancer of the skull and spine - chordoma - could be helped by existing drugs,...

Credit: Luke Mahler EAST LANSING, Mich. - While many animals try to avoid sticky situations, lizards evolved to seek them...

ExxonMobil Chemical Company and the University of Houston have signed a multi-year research agreement that will focus on helping the...

Credit: UNU-EHS Bonn, 12 September 2017 - Today, the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII) won the prestigious 2017 Momentum for...

A major obstacle to applying genetic engineering to benefit humans and the environment is the risk that organisms whose genes...

Credit: Turner et al./Cell 2017 Autism has genetic roots, but most cases can't be explained by current genetic tests. Now,...

Credit: Radboud University For decades, immortal cells such as the famous HeLa cells have been contaminating other cell cultures in...

Credit: Illustration courtesy of Lehigh University's P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. Lehigh University's newly established Department of...

Fifty-two previously unidentified genes that are critical for hearing have been found by testing over 3,000 mouse genes. The newly...

Credit: Colleen Gino The recent intense hurricanes in the Atlantic have sharply focused attention on how climate change can exacerbate...

There is no effective treatment for the cancer form found in the liver called fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma, which is mainly...

(Cincinnati, OH) Rettsyndrome.org is pleased to share that Neuren Pharmaceuticals, today, after meeting with the FDA, will conduct a Phase...

Public utility managers will be able to predict drinking water quality more accurately thanks to a team of scientists with...

Using a modified version of the CRISPR genome-editing system, MIT researchers have developed a new way to screen for genes...

Credit: AG Tampé FRANKFURT. The immune system checks the health of cells of the body by examining a kind of...

Credit: © 2017 HRL Laboratories- All rights reserved HRL Laboratories, LLC, researchers have determined how non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation...

Credit: Jose Esparza It is mind-boggling that researchers still don't know exactly what virus was used in the most successful...

Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- Vicki P. Losick, Ph.D., of the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor,...

Credit: Lab of Jianwen Que, MD, PhD, Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (October 11, 2017)--Columbia University Medical Center...

Credit: Joseph Anderson, et al. LEBANON, NH - Most colorectal cancer develops from precursors known as polyps, the most common...