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Cortisol is a life sustaining adrenal hormone essential to maintaining the natural balance of the body. It is often referred...

Credit: Nature Following a successful diet, many people are dismayed to find their weight rebounding - an all-too-common phenomenon termed...

Stephen J. Elledge, the Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, has been...

Credit: © 2016 KAUST Rice is a staple for more than half of the world's population, yet it is also...

Credit: © 2016 KAUST Modeling the combustion of fossil fuels by KAUST researchers has helped to characterize some of the...

Credit: UBC The ancient Japanese art of flower arranging was the inspiration for a groundbreaking technique to create tiny "artificial...

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich chemist Oliver Trapp has designed and synthesized a catalyst which flexibly molds the handedness of the...

Credit: Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA This delicate blue group of stars -- actually an irregular galaxy named IC 3583 --...

SAN ANTONIO -- The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will honor two renowned researchers for their work in breast...

(San Diego, CA - December 1, 2016) - Physicians and researchers from Mount Sinai Health System are presenting influential research...

What if a smartphone app could help you avoid relapsing back to smoking even before you knew you were at...

Credit: University of Notre Dame Gaining access to important biopharmaceuticals needed to treat illnesses and autoimmune diseases is one of...

Black light does more than make posters glow. Cornell researchers have developed a chemical tool to control inflammation that is...

Credit: University of Illinois In 2004, electrical engineering pioneers Nick Holonyak, Jr. and Milton Feng at the University of Illinois...

Credit: Cornell University Just like workers in a factory, enzymes can create a final product more efficiently if they are...

PHILADELPHIA - Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia...

Credit: SCB Celldance 2016 and Daniela Cimini, Virginia Tech SAN FRANCISCO, CA--Riding a wave of powerful new imaging technologies, three...

PHILADELPHIA - Labor induction is one of the most common medical procedures in the world, with nearly one-quarter of women...

Credit: Stephen Wietgrefe Combination drug treatments have become successful at long-term control of HIV infection, but the goal of totally...

Credit: Andy Y. Shih, Ph.D., and Robert Underly, Medical University of South Carolina. Pericytes are the primary locus of matrix-mellaproteinase-9-dependent...