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A good drug is hard to design: to garner FDA approval and reach consumers, it must not only effectively treat...

By combining experimental data from X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, cryoelectron microscopy and lipidomics (the study of cellular lipid networks), researchers...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new drug to treat patients with advanced breast cancer, signaling a...

How a brilliant-green sea slug manages to live for months at a time “feeding” on sunlight, like a plant, is...

Many people imagine robots today as clunky, metal versions of humans, but scientists are forging new territory in the field...

New research from scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) shows that the...

Lungfish and salamanders can hear, despite not having an outer ear or tympanic middle ear. These early terrestrial vertebrates were...

If you were about to enter a crowded subway during flu season, packed with people sneezing and coughing, wouldn't it...

Liver cells derived from stem cells can be infected with malaria and used to test potential drugs. MIT researchers engineered...

Researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) have discovered a precise stem cell signaling process that can lead to intestinal...

Through an investigation of a fundamental process that guides the maturation of immune cells, researchers have revealed new insights into...

To help people with hormone deficiencies, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a potential new therapy based...

For patients with brain cancer, radiation is a powerful and potentially life-saving treatment, but it can also cause considerable and...

One of the most exciting scientific advances made in recent years is CRISPR—the ability to precisely edit the genome of...

New brain research findings suggest long-term meditation may lead to less age-related gray matter atrophy in the human brain. Since...

Crops and other plants are constantly faced with adverse environmental conditions, such as rising temperatures (2014 was the warmest year...

The brain is protected by a barrier of cells that tightly regulates the transport of substances into this organ in...

A compound found in common foods such as red grapes and peanuts may help prevent age-related decline in memory, according...

Neurons in the brain are wired like a social network, report researchers from Biozentrum, University of Basel. Each nerve cell...

A team of researchers, led by Samuel K. Sia, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has developed a...