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Credit: Garvan Institute of Medical Research A naturally occurring hormone could help make chemotherapy much more effective for many Australians with lung cancer, according to...

Credit: Nemours Children's Health System Zika virus, long feared for its severe effects on pregnant mothers and unborn babies, may hold potential as a cancer...

Credit: VA photo by Jeff Bowen, for illustrative purposes only Regular cancer screenings can lower the chance of death from lung cancer. But they cannot...

Credit: Scott Schrage, University of Nebraska-Lincoln In 1977, researcher Rudolf Thauer proposed a theoretical ceiling on the amount of hydrogen that bacteria could produce via...

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (July 25, 2018) - The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences has awarded Rice University researchers...

Credit: Kevin Fitzsimons, The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio - The reproductive history of the unisexual, ladies-only salamander species is full of evolutionary surprises. In...

Credit: Suel Lab, UC San Diego It's the way we end up with a fresh cup of coffee from a clump of beans. It's how...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science In 1924, Russian biochemist Alexander Oparin claimed that life on Earth developed through gradual chemical changes of organic molecules, in...

Homing pigeons use familiar smells to navigate their way across hundreds of kilometers of unfamiliar territory. Researchers have now confirmed that artificial odors cannot be...

Credit: Dr. Freek Vonk Researchers at Swansea University's College of Science are part of an international team that has discovered a new species of venomous...

Credit: Genevieve Ali Add just enough fertilizer, and crops thrive. Add too much, and you may end up with contaminated surface and groundwater. Excess nutrients...

Infection from the globally prevalent parasite Toxoplasma gondii may increase a person's likelihood of pursuing entrepreneurial and business-related activities, new University of Colorado Boulder..

NEW YORK, NY -- This week, The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research announced a $1M grant to the New York Genome Center (NYGC) to support...

Darwin, Australia: A team of malaria experts from a large international research collaboration has published results supporting the need for a radical cure strategy to...

A team of tiny molecules that work together to make cancer cells less aggressive has been discovered by Australian researchers. The molecules, called microRNAs, could...