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Researchers at North Carolina State University have successfully incorporated "photosensitizers" into a range of polymers, giving those materials the ability to render bacteria and viruses...

Credit: (Courtesy: Renugah Naidu and Gowtham Subramanian, Singapore University of Technology & Design) Malaria remains an economic and health burden to the developing world. As...

Dr. Nikolaus Wenger of Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin has been awarded a Freigeist Fellowship to support the development of brain-computer interfaces for neurological diseases. The...

Credit: Micaiah Ward TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Scorpions can be found at every corner of the globe and on six of the seven continents, from the...

Retroviruses have colonised vertebrate hosts for millions of years by inserting their genes into host genomes, enabling their inheritance through generations as endogenous retroviruses (ERVs)....

Credit: D. Caetano-Anolles Owing to present-day armed conflicts, the general public is well aware of the terrifying effects of chemical weapons. Meanwhile, the effects of...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have unraveled a mechanism of resistance to EZH2 inhibitors in ovarian cancers with mutations in the ARID1A gene. The study,...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Next time you're stung by a wasp or a honeybee, consider the elegantly designed stinger that caused you so much pain. In...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Monday, October 8, 2018, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company specializing in the application of next-generation artificial intelligence for drug...

A new research project underway at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is investigating how, and under what conditions, viruses can persist inside the body and remain...

A recently-approved breast cancer drug could be used to target and treat a life-threatening leukaemia, new research has revealed. Experts at Newcastle University, UK, have...

A study comparing DNA and RNA data from Nigerian breast cancer patients to patients in a United States database found that certain aggressive molecular features...

Scientists from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a new molecular pathway that controls...

Medicines commonly prescribed to reduce people's risk of heart attack may have limited use for treating other diseases, research suggests. Previous studies had suggested the...

Individuals with an inherited form of skin cancer often have a poor prognosis. The type of immunotherapy that was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in...