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Credit: RUB, Kramer Researchers have modified the protein Nurr1 so that it can enter cells from the outside. Nurr1 deficiency may be one of the...

Credit: Photo by Charlein Gracia Children's growth in the first three years of life affects the development of their lungs and the risk of asthma...

People who have had a stroke are around twice as likely to develop dementia, according to the largest study of its kind ever conducted. The...

Sept. 5, 2018--A new international guideline has been developed to help physicians diagnosis idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a rare and often fatal lung disease whose...

Credit: Shana Pau, University of Georgia Genetics Department (Image is from the Anolis research colony at the University of Georgia) The National Science Foundation's (NSF)...

Commercial antidepressants typically take two to four weeks to have a significant effect on a depressed patient. They are also inneffective in approximately 40% of...

Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control/ECDC Neisseria gonorrhoea continues to show high levels of resistance to azithromycin across the European Union and European...

Credit: WSU PROSSER, Wash. - A new discovery by Washington State University scientists could help grape growers roll back a devastating virus that withers vines...

Credit: Vikas Nanda/Rutgers University-New Brunswick How did life arise on Earth? Rutgers researchers have found among the first and perhaps only hard evidence that simple...

About 94 million years ago, something happened that led to an unusually high amount of organic material being preserved in oceans around the world. The...

Credit: William Discher, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Research published today by a team of Army scientists sheds light on the mechanism...

Scientists have discovered that some childhood bone cancers start growing years before they are currently diagnosed. Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Hospital for...

Credit: John T. Consoli Scott Juntti, the William J. Higgins Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland, received one of 11 new awards,...

Credit: Photo by David Haring, Duke Lemur Center DURHAM, N.C. -- The vast majority of lemur species are on the edge of extinction, experts warn....

Credit: Benjamin Wang '20, Lehigh University Suppose you're a farmer cultivating crops in a major river basin. You rely on water from the river to...