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Credit: Junji Hirota Growing evidence shows that sensory cells which enable us to taste sweetness, bitterness and savoriness (umami) are not limited to the tongue....

Credit: Hidaka et al., 2016 Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine and Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) are pleased to announce the published results of...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Cognitive neuroscientists Rosie Cowell and David Huber at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a four-year, $2.36 million...

Credit: James Hall/Oxford University A subset of lung tumours is exquisitely sensitive to a class of recently approved anti-cancer drugs. Researchers at the CeMM Research...

Credit: The Sainsbury Laboratory Four of the "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds" are scientists from The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, who have recently been recognized for...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By hijacking a cancer cell's own metabolism, researchers have found a way to tag and target...

Credit: Claudia Ehrlich Patients with gallbladder cancer often show few or no symptoms for long periods of time. As a result, the tumours are only...

Credit: MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (Jan. 11, 2017) — Warfarin is a commonly prescribed blood thinner used to prevent harmful blood clots. However, the drug...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A novel approach to studying cancer has enabled researchers to group about 10,000 human cancers of 32 different types into...

Credit: Ana Širovi?, Scripps Institution of Oceanography PORTLAND, Ore. — Researchers are using underwater microphones to interpret and characterize the calls of blue whales swimming...

HANOVER, N.H. – New funding is not enough to guarantee success against emerging infectious diseases around the world. Rather, good governance, a long-term technology investment...

Credit: Graphic by Asier Larramendi Eskorza and Julie McMahon CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — New research reveals that a species of giant elephant that lived 1.5 million...

Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sea level in the Northeast and in some other U.S. regions will rise significantly faster than the global average,...

Credit: Mattias Pettersson Chemists and molecular biologists have made an unexpected discovery in infection biology. The researchers can now show that two proteins that bind...

Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. – Women at the highest genetic risk for fracture benefit the most from hormone therapy, according to a first-of-its-kind...