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A process long associated with genomic instability may have a carefully controlled role in human development, according to a study published in Cell Death Discovery....

Freshwater production from oily seawater has long presented a difficult engineering problem: the same membranes designed to purify water can quickly become clogged by oil....

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers have reported a series of findings that could reshape treatment strategies across oncology, from drug-resistant leukemia and bone metastasis...

A few atomic layers of ruthenium dioxide may be revealing a hidden form of magnetism that disappears in the material’s ordinary bulk state, according to...

Nicotine patches are often viewed as the quietest tool in the fight against smoking: a small adhesive strip placed on the skin, releasing nicotine steadily...

Road traffic may be pushing Britain’s smallest hedgehog populations toward collapse, according to a new study showing that even one or two road deaths each...

A drug already used to calm overactive immune signaling may offer a way to prevent one of the most devastating consequences of APECED, a rare...

A new study in Pediatric Research is drawing attention to an overlooked possibility in the debate over vaping: the health effects of electronic-cigarette aerosols may...

Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo and Stanford University have identified a previously unrecognized immune mechanism that rapidly eliminates donor cells during interspecies organ...

Oral squamous cell carcinoma, the most common form of head and neck cancer, is confronting researchers with a problem that remains stubbornly difficult: how to...

When two atomic nuclei collide at nearly the speed of light, they create one of the hottest and most energetic forms of matter known to...

Cigarette smoking remains one of the leading preventable causes of death in the United States, killing nearly half a million people each year. Although millions...

Fertilization is usually portrayed as a microscopic race: millions of sperm cells competing to reach a single egg, with only one emerging victorious. A new...

People with diabetes who develop both heart failure and end-stage kidney disease face one of medicine’s most difficult cardiovascular challenges. Their risk of hospitalization, arrhythmia,...

A new award presentation in Pediatric Research frames misinformation as a direct threat to child survival, arguing that scientific knowledge can save lives only when...