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Credit: NASA/W. Hrybyk NASA research scientist Tom Hanisco set out to build an instrument capable of measuring a short-lived chemical that cleanses the atmosphere of...

NIH study identifies importance of support for critical suicide prevention services The United States may lack the resources needed to meet increases in demand for...

How do smartphones affect our relationships? How do filmmakers adapt movies to take advantage of our capacity for vision, hearing and memory? How can public...

Credit: Photo courtesy of: UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research...

HSV-1, which mostly infects the mouth, and HSV-2, which causes genital sores, are forming recombinants in present-day humansCredit: Greg Pepper The line between the human...

A Leuven research team led by Prof. Bart De Strooper (VIB-KU Leuven, UK DRI) studied how specialized brain cells called microglia respond to the accumulation...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Cancer cells have various tricks up their metaphorical sleeves to survive in the face of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other cancer treatments. Now...

Harvard Medical School receives $4.5 million for cannabinoid research from Harvard University alum Charles R. Broderick, an alumnus of Harvard University and MIT, has made...

Credit: WSU Pullman, Wash. - Washington State University researchers found a troubling number of errors in publicly available genomic data as they conducted a large-scale...

Credit: NAOJ Astronomers have discovered a star in the Milky Way Galaxy with a chemical composition unlike any other star in our Galaxy. This chemical...

Some say primary care doctors should take the lead on PrEP; others feel any provider can, according to new UB researchCredit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO,...

AI-based competence assistance systems are to help achieve phases of concentrated work and to actively unfold personal and professional competencesCredit: (Photo: Markus Breig, KIT) Not...

Creating a defect in tRNA molecules could weaken bacteria's two-pronged defense and help make faster-acting antibiotics PHILADELPHIA - Antibiotic resistance is a major health threat,...

More than a third of people over the age of 30 who are initially diagnosed with type 2 diabetes actually have type 1, meaning they...

Small molecules such as hormones and ions are constantly transported in and out from our cells. This regulates what the cells do in our bodies....