PHILADELPHIA -- Cigarette smoking accounts for about one fifth of cases of coronary heart disease (CHD), one of the leading ...

Ann Arbor, MI, May 1, 2017 - Cervical cancer is often thought of as a disease that primarily affects young ...

Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center Researchers have been trying to understand why up to 85 percent of women ...

Credit: LiZhi Gao Lab The most popular varieties of tea -- including black tea, green tea, Oolong tea, white tea, ...

Tampa, Fla. (May 1, 2017) - At the 24rd Annual Conference of the American Society of Neural Therapy and Repair ...

Credit: Marvin Antonio Soriano et al In the last few decades, research into boron-containing compounds (BCCs) has notably increased in ...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new study in mice reveals how a protein called Brd4 ...

Credit: Shack/Slum Dweller International (SDI), South Africa New international agreements commit all UN member nations to solving humanity's greatest challenges ...

Credit: Jingjin Xie Imagine wearing clothes with layers of paper that protect you from dangerous bacteria. A Rutgers-led team has ...

Credit: Caltech An international team of researchers, led by Mark E. Davis at Caltech, has succeeded in making the first ...

Credit: Eichfeld, Penn State The possibilities for the new field of two-dimensional, one-atomic-layer-thick materials, including but not limited to graphene, ...

Bottom Line: Alcohol consumption was associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in a large study of African-American women, ...

Credit: John Soares BOSTON - (May 1, 2017) - Over the decades, scientists have repeatedly shown that patients with increased ...

Credit: Melissa Van De Werfhorst UC Santa Barbara engineering professor Larry Coldren has received the 2017 Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award ...

Credit: Mark Sorrells May 1, 2017 - Increases in climate variability have placed new emphasis on the need for resilient ...

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Credit: USC News and Spatial Sciences Institute Plant a tree, save the world? Maybe, but preventing the chopping down of ...

MANHATTAN, KANSAS - Kansas State University researchers will continue to lead efforts to combat a deadly bacterial disease that's affected ...

Global warming is a concept very well-known to people today, even those who are not particularly invested in such matters. ...

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