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Climate change's effect on coastal ecosystems is very likely to increase mortality risks of adult oyster populations in the next 20 years. That is the...

Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Many breast cancer drugs block estrogen receptors inside cancer cells. Blocking the receptors early in disease progression...

Credit: Microbiology Concepts (http://microbiologyconcepts.blogspot.com/2017/03/bacteria.html) To fight your enemies, it helps to know their weaknesses. And, the more specific your knowledge, the ea..

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Our cognitive abilities come down to how well the connections, or synapses, between our brain cells transmit signals. A new study by researchers at MIT's...

BROOKLYN, New York, Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - Spurred by the rapidly expanding use of in-home tests for "omic" - genomic and microbiomic - data...

Researchers from the UCLA School of Dentistry and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have been awarded $5 million over five years from...

A study comparing DNA and RNA data from Nigerian breast cancer patients to patients in a United States database found that certain aggressive molecular features...

A team of clinicians, dietitians and researchers has created an automated program to screen for malnutrition in hospitalized children, providing daily alerts to healthcare providers...

The amount of plastic washing up onto the shores of remote South Atlantic islands is 10 times greater than it was a decade ago, according...

Credit: Oslo kommunes kunstsamling (City of Oslo Art Collection). Outdoor bronze statues make an important contribution to the culture of our cities. However, the urban...

Credit: Intelligent Fingerprinting A revolutionary drug test developed from research carried out at the University of East Anglia can detect four classes of drugs in...

A root extract of the Fallopia multiflora, or Chinese knotweed, has special properties: it enables the nematode C. elegans to live longer and protects it...

Scientific developments in the field of synthetic biology have often given rise to public debate on the possible need for additional regulation. In response, the...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have successfully incorporated "photosensitizers" into a range of polymers, giving those materials the ability to render bacteria and viruses...