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A team led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reported a research trifecta. They discovered a...

MADISON, Wis. — A single defect in a gene that codes for a histone — a “spool” that wraps idle...

A class of drug that inhibits estrogen production and is used to treat breast cancer has been found to quickly...

Credit: Aniket Kittur, Carnegie Mellon University Crowdsourcing has brought us Wikipedia and ways to understand how HIV proteins fold. It...

A new UBC-developed method to isolate cancer cells that have escaped from a tumour could soon pave the way for...

Signaling a potential new approach to treating diabetes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard...

Antibiotics have proven to be a double-edged sword: capable of killing a range of bacteria that cause infections, but also...

Credit: Sato and Woolley Researchers from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, have discovered a new factor in the escalation of seizures:...

In Alzheimer’s disease, plaques of amyloid beta protein accumulate in the brain, damaging connections between neurons. Now, researchers at University...

The conventional wisdom about cancer cells is that they are masters of camouflage, invisible to the immune system. However, occasionally,...

ARLINGTON, Va.–Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) Gen. Robert B. Neller recently visited the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to...

Induced pluripotent stem cells hold promise for regenerative medicine because they can, in theory, turn into any type of tissue...

Persons with the serious disorder ALS, can have a genetic mutation that causes the protein SOD1 to aggregate in motor...

Kichitaro Nakajima, a graduate student at the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Hirotsugu Ogi, Associate Professor at the Graduate School...