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Aging is a complex biological process which is accompanied by an increasing number of toxic protein aggregates in the cells....

Decorating the outside of cells like tiny antenna, a diverse community of sugar molecules acts like a telecommunications system, sending...

Eating a slice of chocolate cake or spending time with a friend usually stimulates positive feelings, while getting in a...

Diagnosing a heart attack can require multiple tests using expensive equipment. But not everyone has access to such techniques, especially...

For the last decade, scientists have deployed increasingly capable underwater robots to map and monitor pockets of the ocean to...

The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a growing problem in the United States and the world. New findings by researchers...

A research team led by UC Berkeley engineers has developed a new smartphone microscope that uses video to automatically detect...

Washington State University researchers have found a way to make jet fuel from a common black fungus found in decaying...

Researchers studying how the brain makes decisions have, for the first time, recorded the moment-by-moment fluctuations in brain signals that...

The effectiveness of cancer vaccines could be dramatically boosted by first loading the cancer antigens into silicon microparticles, report scientists...

Cells that relay information from the ear to the brain can change in significant ways in response to the noise...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have used exosomes -- tiny bubbles of protein and fat...

During each cell division, more than 3.3 billion base pairs of genomic DNA have to be duplicated and segregated accurately...

Researchers at the University of Houston have created an optical lens that can be placed on an inexpensive smartphone to...