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Dogs can be trained to sniff out evidence of prostate cancer in human urine with near-perfect accuracy, Italian researchers report....

Molecular ‘fingerprint’ for tissue taken from first isotope-enriched mouse has huge potential for scientific breakthroughs, as well as improved medical...

Mice severely disabled by a multiple sclerosis (MS) – like condition could walk less than two weeks following treatment with...

Researchers have shown for the first time in an animal that is more closely related to humans that it is...

A vaccine or other therapy directed at a single site on a surface protein of HIV could in principle neutralize...

Current computing is based on binary logic – zeroes and ones – also called Boolean computing. A new type of...

While it seems like restoring blood flow to an injured leg would be a good thing, it can actually cause...

Using new stem cell technology, scientists at the Salk Institute have shown that neurons generated from the skin cells of...

New research has found novel factors that affect the ability of fungi to be incorporated into microbial communities within the...

Genetic material hitchhiking in our cells may shape physical traits more than we thought. In 2003, when the human genome...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Tokyo have created electronic devices that become soft...

Researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have discovered that by targeting a particular receptor, chemotherapy-resistant cancer cells can be killed...

The ability to transfer a gene or DNA sequence from one animal into the genome of another plays a critical...

Viruses are the enigma of the biological world -- despite having their own DNA and being able to adapt to...