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A new test, based on a patient's epigenetics*, could be an accurate and inexpensive way to find and treat those...

There are significant gaps in our knowledge on the evolution of sex, according to a research review on sex chromosomes...

LA JOLLA, CA - May 26, 2017 - Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made another important advance...

Ashkenazi Jewish women are known to have a predisposition to the inherited breast cancers BRCA1 and BRCA2, but currently genetic...

Prague, Czech Republic - 26 May 2017: Diesel pollution is linked with heart damage, according to research presented today at...

Credit: University of Huddersfield A FORMER top detective turned University of Huddersfield researcher has published his findings that coroners in...

Prague, Czech Republic - 26 May 2017: Researchers in the UK and Peru have developed a faster and cheaper cardiac...

Credit: David Del Poio for Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In an effort aimed at achieving greater integration of patient...

A genetic variant that protects the heart against cardiovascular disease has been discovered by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger...

May 26, 2017 - For some patients undergoing intestinal or multi-organ transplantation, closing the abdominal wall poses a difficult surgical...

Credit: Penn State University New, license-free DNA ladders will allow researchers to estimate the size of fragments of DNA for...

Plant scientists at the University of Cambridge have found a plant protein indispensable for communication early in the formation of...

Credit: University of Texas at Dallas In a new study, scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas have found...

Credit: Tim Bertelink A team of scientists led by the University of Bristol has provided new insights into the origins...

Credit: Will Kirk/JHU A team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has discovered a biochemical signaling process that causes densely packed...

Credit: Peter Marriott Almost 150 years after Charles Darwin first proposed a little-known prediction from his theory of sexual selection,...

TU Dresden is going establish two new Collaborative Research Centres (CRC) and an additional CRC with TUD participation will be...

Credit: Graphic by Jason Drees for the Biodesign Institute Obesity, already a global epidemic, is on the rise. Over one...

A new study published today in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology has found that taking Vitamin D supplements...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Melanoma is a particularly difficult cancer to treat once it has...