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Immunotherapy drugs could help some breast cancer patients based on the genetic changes in their tumours, researchers at the Wellcome...

Charity Action on Hearing Loss is supporting the biotechnology firm Otomagnetics, which today announces an important breakthrough towards preventing hearing...

For many Canadians, summer time means time at the lake, swimming, fishing, boating, and relaxing. Nothing can spoil this experience...

Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett Science educators at Wake Forest University are testing how automated feedback combined with new one-on-one...

From handbags and jackets to car interiors, leather products are almost everywhere. But processing the leather for these luxury items...

Credit: Stuart Wolpert/UCLA UCLA physicists have pioneered a method for creating a unique new molecule that could eventually have applications...

Credit: Anton Pauw New research from Stellenbosch University (SU) in South Africa shows that, in an extraordinary case of adaptation,...

Credit: Drexel University Drexel University researchers have made a discovery that could create roads that deice themselves during winter storms....

Credit: Brian Smithers/UC Davis Bristlecone pine and limber pine trees in the Great Basin region are like two very gnarled,...

Credit: Tran, Jassby, and Schwabe Conventional wisdom dictates water conservation can only benefit communities affected by drought. But researchers at...

One of the most common waterborne diseases worldwide is cryptosporidiosis, a parasitic disease affecting the small intestine and possibly our...

Credit: Journal of AAPOS San Francisco, CA, September 13, 2017 - Although one of the most serious consequences of the...

Credit: Brown University When Dr. Eli Adashi began practicing fertility medicine in 1974, there was nothing so revolutionary as in...

Proteins are fundamental macromolecules for life, with a diversity of functions, like acting as channels through cellular walls, catalysers, DNA...

Credit: Fernanda Delborgo Abra / ViaFauna Wildlife roadkill not only makes endangered species more vulnerable, these accidents also put the...

Credit: Micro and Nanotechnology Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The latest versions of most smartphones contain at least two...

Nature and society are full of so-called real-world complex systems, such as protein interactions. Theoretical models, called complex networks, describe...

University of Colorado Boulder researchers and collaborating institutions have been awarded $2.9 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to...

Credit: ECDC According to test results from the annual European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (Euro-GASP), resistance levels to the main...

Catalysts are agents that initiate chemical reactions, speed them up or significantly increase the yield of the desired product. New...