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Adults suffering from diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood-related disorders may benefit from life-saving treatment commonly used in...

A smartphone app that monitors subtle qualities of a person's voice during everyday phone conversations shows promise for detecting early...

Melbourne researchers have overturned a 40-year-old theory on when and how cells divide, showing that 'parent' cells program a cell...

Cells have to protect themselves: against damage in their genetic material for one thing, but also against attack from the...

For the first time ever, a group of Danish and Chinese researchers has sequenced the genome of the spider. This...

Bioengineers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of Montreal have used DNA to develop a tool...

For HIV patients being treated with anti-AIDS medications, resistance to drug therapy regimens is commonplace. Often, patients develop resistance to...

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have taken a very important step towards understanding cell reprogramming...

It's about the size of a large vitamin pill and, for the first time in Ohio, the smallest heart pacemaker...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important step in understanding how hearts are formed in developing...

A new study led by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has painted a clearer picture...

Most plants try to turn towards the sun. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg have worked with Finnish colleagues to...

Scientists from the University of Manchester have discovered that microbes in smaller groups are more likely to mutate, resulting in...

Developing and testing a new anti-cancer drug can cost billions of dollars and take many years of research. Finding an...

Something — or some things — in the blood of young mice has the ability to restore mental capabilities in...

In a new study published today in Cell Reports, scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center demonstrate that mice...

Damaged leg muscles grew stronger and showed signs of regeneration in three out of five men whose old injuries were...

Stem cells made from the skin of adult, infertile men yield primordial germ cells — cells that normally become sperm...

We may soon be able to make easy and early diagnoses of prostate cancer by smell. Investigators in Finland have...

Researchers have identified two types of neurons that enable the spinal cord to control skilled forelimb movement. The first is...