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CAMBRIDGE, MA - Glioma, a type of brain cancer, is normally treated by removing as much of the tumor as possible, followed by radiation or...

Overall, heart failure is an uncommon complication of breast cancer treatment; however, the risk is higher in patients treated with certain types of chemotherapy and...

The offspring of females fed a low-protein diet during pregnancy and lactation are significantly more likely to develop prostate cancer as they age. This is...

Credit: Peterson & Ferris, eNeuro (2018) A study of young adults published in eNeuro demonstrates how the brain responds to disruptions in the body's balance....

The question of why we sleep has been a longstanding subject of debate, with some theories suggesting that slumber provides respite for the brain, which...

Credit: Nair lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Hookworms infect nearly 430 million people in the world, mostly in countries where sanitation is poor,...

MADISON, Wis. -- As plants stretch toward the summer sun, they are marching toward one of the most important decisions of their lives -- when...

Credit: Cleveland Clinic EMBARGOED UNTIL 11:00 a.m. ET, August 6, 2018, CLEVELAND: Cleveland Clinic researchers have designed a potential new class of drugs that may...

Credit: Photo courtesy of Darya Shepeleva, scientist at the Russian Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk. URBANA, Ill. - For nearly 60 years, the...

A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that small birds migrating from Scandinavia to Africa in the autumn occasionally fly as high as...

A new UC San Francisco study has discovered a key biological difference in how people of European and Chinese descent put on weight -- a...

Autism spectrum disorders are a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental disorders, one of the main characteristics of which is impaired social communication. But what happens in...

Intertidal ecosystems and the small-scale fisheries they support are an important part of coastal economies, environments, and cultures. Globally, fisheries such as the soft-shell clams...

The 9th Annual Wyss International Symposium will focus on new advances in the field of Molecular Robotics, with the goal of sharing recent progress at...

Credit: Illustration by Masato Hattori Paper published in Scientific Reports details the first North American co-occurrence of hadrosaur and therizinosaur tracks in the lower Cantwell...