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Credit: The Varanasi Research Group CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- When spraying paint or coatings onto a surface, or fertilizers or pesticides onto crops, the size of...

Scientists have revealed a novel brain network that links pain in Parkinson's disease (PD) to a specific region of the brain, according to a report...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--August 28, 2018--Human cytomegalovirus is a leading cause of birth defects and transplant failures. As it's evolved over time, this virus from the...

Credit: Colleen Kelley, University of Cincinnati CINCINNATI--Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have discovered that cell metabolism plays an important role...

Credit: Dr. Yanfang Peipei Zhu, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology LA JOLLA, CA--Neutrophils--short-lived, highly mobile and versatile--outnumber all other immune cells circulating throu..

Credit: Dan Graham and Blake Bluestein WASHINGTON, D.C., August 28, 2018 -- Cancer researchers struggle to identify tumor cells that are interspersed within nonmalignant tissues...

Credit: Ralph Weichselbaum and Yang Xin Fu Although the success or failure of radiation therapy for cancer has long been associated with the intrinsic radio-resistance...

A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center researchers has determined one way that mutations in a gene involved in a rare, hereditary cancer...

Credit: KAIST Researchers of KAIST have defined a novel strategy for the secretory production of free haem using engineered Escherichia coli (E. coli) strains. They...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- About 30 percent of the proteins encoded by the human genome are membrane proteins -- proteins that span the cell membrane so...

Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology designed a new type of molecular wire doped with organometallic ruthenium to...

Credit: Élise Sanceaume The evolutionary context of the eggplant was until recently very poorly known. Historical documents and genetic data have shown that the eggplant...

Credit: © Pablo García-Díaz The effects of island remoteness from the mainland on the number of species found on islands differs strongly for non-native compared...

Credit: Jussi Toppari Researchers at University of Jyväskylä (Finland) and University of Tampere (Finland) together with BioNavis Ltd (Finland) have developed a novel nanoactuator system,...

Credit: © NUST MISIS An international research group of scientists from Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and NUST MISIS (Russia) has developed a model of a...