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Have you ever wondered why the Megalodon shark became to be so big? Or wondered why some other sharks are much smaller?Credit: Guillermo Torres. Banco...

Sexual minorities -- people who are attracted to members of the same sex or who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual -- are at a...

DETROIT - Findings from a new study conducted by researchers at Henry Ford Health System suggest a link between keloids and increased risk of being...

These kidney macrophages reprogram to a developmental state after kidney injury, similar to those in newborn mice.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - During development in the...

January 24, 2019 - Based on limited research, there's no strong evidence that selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) - the most widely used class of antidepressants...

Credit: Aubrey Kelly ITHACA, N.Y. - Thousands of people - many of them children - are hurt or killed by land mines each year, so...

Cells use 'battering ram' to get around cancer drugCredit: Images courtesy of Laura Kelley, Duke University. DURHAM, N.C. -- Nearly two decades after a class...

Yale research quantifies impacts of soil organic matter In recent years, policymakers across the world have launched initiatives to increase the amount of "soil organic...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, January 24, 2019 - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing the next generation artificial intelligence,...

Preclinical study yields previously unreported, potent and generalizable hits representing potential drug targets for hereditary breast, ovarian cancer BRCA1 and BRCA2 ("BReast CAncer genes") are...

GALVESTON, Texas - Have you ever wondered why we crave the very foods that we try to avoid when dieting? Or wish there was a...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), reveals a causal link between dopamine and the reward responses in humans...

A genome-wide association study in Biological Psychiatry examines the role of copy number variants in subtypes of bipolar disorder Philadelphia, January 24, 2019 A form...

International Congress on Targeted Anticancer Therapies (TAT) 2019, 25-27 February, Paris, FranceCredit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Lugano, Switzerland, 24 January 2019 - The...

As parents of identical twins will tell you, they are never actually identical, even though they have the same genes. This is also true in...