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About 40 percent of the global population is at risk for contracting dengue - the most important mosquito-borne viral infection and a close "cousin" of...

WASHINGTON -- As many as a billion people could be newly exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes by the end of the century because of global warming,...

New study finds the human body constantly corrects to stay on its feet COLUMBUS, Ohio--Maybe running comes easy, each stride pleasant and light. Maybe it...

Starting routine colorectal cancer screening at age 45 rather than 50 would decrease U.S. cancer deaths by as much as 11,100 over five years, according...

USC computer science researchers develop a new way to test machine learning algorithms that control self-driving carsCredit: Anand Balakrishnan It's a big question for many...

The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) today announced that, for the first time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has...

Credit: Jason Richards/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are working to understand both the complex nature of...

The discovery of these seemingly out-of-place sensing cells may lend insight into possibilities for protecting lung function in people who experience severe influenza infections.Credit: Andrew...

In its first run, ABRACADABRA detects no signal of the hypothetical dark matter particle within a specific mass range. Physicists from MIT and elsewhere have...

New strategy for editing blood stem cells is more efficient and targetedCredit: Daniel Bauer/Boston Children's Hospital Researchers at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center...

Rice University bioengineers lead effort to print scaffolds to heal bone and cartilageCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 28, 2019) - Bioscientists are moving...

Award from USAID will support research collaborations through new Center of Excellence in Energy at Ain Shams University in Cairo. MIT is the recipient of...

Professor Anthony Vodacek helps lay groundwork for new virtual reality experience Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology and Seneca Park Zoo are developing a virtual...

Credit: Joe Howell A medicine currently being tested as a chemoprevention agent for multiple types of cancer has more than one trick in its bag...

Fungal infection is life-threatening to people with weakened immune systems, such as those with blood cancers, HIV infection or following an organ transplant Fungus can...