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Bottom Line: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has updated its recommendations regarding screening for cervical cancer, with the recommendations and type of screening...

Credit: Pic courtesy of Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Patients who are unlikely to benefit from a commonly used immunotherapy for bladder cancer could be...

Credit: Christopher Bowen Spider silk is among the strongest and toughest materials in the natural world, as strong as some steel alloys with a toughness...

Credit: Gerad Dean (Millbrook, NY) Trees growing in temperate forests in the eastern US show strong adaptation or acclimation to local climate. So reports a...

This research work aims to help other researchers in the field to set up an experimental bench to assess the performance of different tools for...

Credit: The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, DTU A new study published in the Metabolic Engineering Journal describes a method based on CRISPR/Cas9, which...

A new, comprehensive survey led by USC scientists shows the Southern California coast harbors some of the world's highest concentrations of an algal toxin dangerous...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) How do muscle cells prepare for the particular metabolic challenges of the day? Scientists at...

DNA and RNA are naturally polarised molecules containing electric dipole moments due to the presence of a significant number of charged atoms at neutral pH....

In collaboration with scientists from the Ioffe Institute, HSE University researchers have developed an ultra-sensitive atomic magnetometric scheme with a sensitivity of 5 fTl×Hz-1/2, setting...

Credit: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. AURORA, Colo. (August 21, 2018) - The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has received a $120 million...

Credit: Vranish et. al. A sedentary lifestyle can cause an impairment of the transport of blood around the body, which increases the risk of disease...

Credit: European Society for Medical Oncology Lugano, Switzerland- 21 August 2018 - A new scale for tumour DNA mutations which will simplify and standardise choices...

What if the standard treatment for hypothyroidism--insufficient thyroid hormone--is inadequate in controlling some crucial aspects of the condition? That's the provocative question asked, and ans..

Credit: UT Health San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, Texas, U.S.A. -- A type of cellular stress known to be involved in cancer and aging has now...