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Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have identified, for the first time in oesophageal cancer, the cancer killing capability of a lesser-known type of immune cell,...

Credit: MLU / Nadja Sonntag Research for the benefit of food security: A new line of barley achieves good crop yields even under poor environmental...

What The Study Did: This observational study of nearly 5,700 hospital employees who used the workplace cafeteria reports on whether food placement and traffic light...

Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications Scientists seeking to bring to Earth the fusion that powers the sun and stars must control the hot, charged...

Cryptosporidiosis outbreaks are on the rise, and children are likely to be the ones dispersing the illness; two University of Michigan experts weigh in on...

What The Study Did: Veterans Affairs data for 355,121 patients undergoing ambulatory, elective, noncardiac surgery were used to compare the risk of death and complications...

In June, chemical manufacturers converged on Washington, D.C., to urge the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to remove certain chemicals from a new...

Credit: Trends in Ecology & Evolution President Xi Jinping staked out China's role as a committed player to tackle the climate crisis and build an...

Prozac®, the trade name for the drug fluoxetine, was introduced to the U.S. market for the treatment of depression in 1988. Thirty years later, scientists...

PITTSBURGH, July 10, 2019 - A new study from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center found that...

University of Bath press release A new study from researchers at the Universities of Bath and Bristol suggests that doctors should rethink which drugs they...

Discovery may aid in advancement of treatments (Boston)--For the first time researchers have deciphered the near-atomic structure of filaments, called 'pili', that extend from the...

There are currently no drugs that stop or inhibit Alzheimer's disease. Despite drug trials showing plaque reduction in the brain, the patients' cognitive function did...

Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01629 In very hot or cold environments, conventional tape can lose its stickiness and leave behind an annoying...

New research may help change treatment practices for patients diagnosed with low risk thyroid cancer PHILADELPHIA -- Nearly a million Americans live with thyroid cancer...