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(Boston)– Why do African-American women die at a higher rate and experience more aggressive breast tumors than white women? Researchers...

SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) announces a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement for...

Approximately 95 percent of cancer mortality is caused by metastasis. This fact is what motivates many cancer researchers to focus...

Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the effects of electric fields...

Baltimore, MD– As we age, the function and regenerative abilities of skeletal muscles deteriorate, which means it is difficult for...

In recent years pasta gained a bad reputation: it will fatten you. This led lots of people to limit its...

Recognizing the early stages of esophageal cancer is difficult because it can easily be missed. TU Eindhoven has therefore been...

“This nanoformulation approach allows us to make vaccines against new diseases in only seven days, allowing the potential to deal...

Cells contain thousands of messenger RNA molecules, which carry copies of DNA’s genetic instructions to the rest of the cell....

Rats given midazolam, an anti-anxiety medication, were less likely to free trapped companions because the drug lessened their empathy, according...

A Japanese research team have applied a method used in human genetic analysis to rice and rapidly discovered four new...

HOUSTON – (June 23, 2016) – A team led by Rice University scientists has improved the production of a potent...

Kwanghun (KC) Chung, investigator of neuroscience at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, core faculty of the Institute for...

Driverless cars pose a quandary when it comes to safety. These autonomous vehicles are programmed with a set of safety...

Case reports on 13 cancer patients suggest that a small number of cancer patients taking the immunotherapy drugs ipilimumab and...

What if lost limbs could be regrown? Cancers detected early with blood or urine tests, instead of invasive biopsies? Drugs...

The implementation of state prescription drug monitoring programs was associated with the prevention of approximately one opioid-related overdose death every...

Boston, MA – In a large study conducted by at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), researchers found an association between...

HODGKIN lymphoma patients can be spared the serious side effects of chemotherapy thanks to high-tech scans that can predict the...

Credit: Courtesy of Tangible Media Group/MIT Media Lab These days, it may seem as if 3-D printers can spit out...