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A novel drug is being touted as a major step forward in the battle against Australia's escalating rates of obesity and associated metabolic diseases. As...

Credit: Dorothy Kozlowski/UGA A research team that includes partners from the University of Georgia New Materials Institute and the RWDC Environmental Stewardship Foundation will develop...

Credit: Image courtesy of Marcela Rojas-Pierce. A little-studied plant cellular complex plays an essential role in a biological process - vacuole fusion - critical to...

A major obstacle to in-cell genome editing is, well, the cell itself. "Human cells don't like to take in stuff," explained UC Santa Barbara's Norbert...

Credit: Dr Abdelrahman Zaky Researchers have found that seawater can replace freshwater to produce the sustainable fuel Bioethanol, reducing the need to drain precious resources....

Credit: UTA A UTA researcher has won a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to look at new ways to harness...

Credit: University of Rochester illustration / Elio Abbondanzieri Bacteria cause many serious illnesses, from food poisoning to pneumonia. The challenge for scientists is that disease-causing...

Credit: Florida Atlantic University The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has released new recommendations on screening for cervical cancer. These latest recommendations continu..

Credit: UC Davis Health A comprehensive analysis of eight clinical trials and four cohort studies on cervical cancer screening by researchers from UC Davis and...

Bottom Line: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has updated its recommendations regarding screening for cervical cancer, with the recommendations and type of screening...

Credit: Pic courtesy of Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Patients who are unlikely to benefit from a commonly used immunotherapy for bladder cancer could be...

Credit: Christopher Bowen Spider silk is among the strongest and toughest materials in the natural world, as strong as some steel alloys with a toughness...

Credit: Gerad Dean (Millbrook, NY) Trees growing in temperate forests in the eastern US show strong adaptation or acclimation to local climate. So reports a...

This research work aims to help other researchers in the field to set up an experimental bench to assess the performance of different tools for...

Credit: The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, DTU A new study published in the Metabolic Engineering Journal describes a method based on CRISPR/Cas9, which...