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A small preliminary study from Northwestern Medicine has shown that a blood test may identify risk of stillbirth and placentitis in pregnant individuals who have...

Performance of elite show-jumping horses reveals that faults are predictable, and are most likely at jumps with water and fences in combinationCredit: Markus Spiske, Unsplash,...

56 million years ago a period of abrupt global warming known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), was caused by a massive release of greenhouse...

Tumors can use an enzyme called ART1 to thwart antitumor immune cells, making the enzyme a promising new target for immunity-boosting cancer treatments, according to...

A new imaging technique for real 3D vascular ultrasound could become a key tool in strategies aimed at preventing cardiovascular disease in apparently healthy persons,...

AMES, Iowa – The ability to generate a patient’s blood cells in order to treat blood diseases has eluded scientists for years, but a recently...

Philadelphia, March 16, 2022 -- Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a disease in which inflammation causes scars in the bile duct, leading to liver failure,...

Biological processes such as wound healing and cancer cell invasion rely on the collective and coordinated motion of living cells. A little understood aspect that...

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from ESPCI Paris, Chiba University, and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology have used a 3D simulation to show that small...

Some "hypervirulent" strains of Listeria monocytogenes have a greater capacity to infect the central nervous system. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Inserm...

As brain scans have become more detailed and informative in recent decades, neuroimaging has seemed to promise a way for doctors and scientists to “see”...

Cells communicate with one another in the language of chemistry, but those from different kingdoms, such as bacteria and yeast, speak dialects virtually unintelligible to...

Verifying the efficacy and safety of a drug, clinical trials are a hurdle that must be cleared before a new drug hits the market. Conducting...

Signal transduction, or cellular communication involving chemical and physical signals transmitted by signal molecules in the extracellular and intracellular environments, leads to the generation of...

Neuroscientists reexamine hundreds of contradictory experiments on the connection between neural activity and consciousnessCredit: Tel Aviv University Neuroscientists reexamine hundreds of contradictory experiments on the...