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In mouse models of human disease, immunotoxins targeting the protein mesothelin prevent liver cells from producing collagen, a precursor to fibrosis and cirrhosisCredit: UC San...

Finding prompts researchers, clinicians to consider this impact in future research and clinical treatment of brain diseasesCredit: Washington University in St. Louis MRI-guided focused ultrasound...

Credit: University of Pittsburgh The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) has selected Mostafa Bedewy, assistant professor of industrial engineering at the University of Pittsburgh...

Some bacterial symbionts in travel the globe and are true cosmopolitansCredit: Laetitia Wilkins The Lucinidae family, lucinids for short, comprises approximately 500 living species of...

Smell leads storks to freshly mown meadowsCredit: MPI of Animal Behavior/ C. Ziegler The sharp eyes of an eagle, the extraordinary hearing of an owl...

Credit: De-Yu Xie North Carolina State University researchers have developed a new technique that can alter plant metabolism. Tested in tobacco plants, the technique showed...

Special PCORI supplement to Medical Care reports on 'Future Directions in Transitional Care Research'Credit: Gesell et al. (2021), Medical Care, DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001591 July 12, 2021...

Mathematical approach could transform drug development by searching for disease targets, then predicting if a drug will be successfulCredit: UC San Diego Health Sciences Writing...

The study could have applications in spintronics and quantum computing; it was conducted by an international collaboration and published in Nature; its first author is...

Credit: Photo courtesy: Astrid Andersson Ecologists from the Conservation Forensics Laboratory of the Research Division for Ecology and Biodiversity at the University of Hong Kong...

Credit: The University of Hong Kong Ants are omnipresent, and we often get blisters after an ant bite. But do you know the molecular mechanism...

A new software improves data-independent acquisition proteomics by providing a computational workflow that permits highly sensitive and accurate data analysisCredit: Sonja Taut, MPI of Biochemistry...

Credit: © Anna Belfer-Cohen The cave of Satsurblia was inhabited by humans in different periods of the Paleolithic: Up to date a single human individual...

Credit: Dominick Spracklen Forest clearance in Southeast Asia is accelerating, leading to unprecedented increases in carbon emissions, according to new research. The findings, revealed by...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons Rather than waiting for certainty in sea-level rise projections, policymakers can plan now for future coastal flooding by addressing existing inequities among...