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The unpredictable annual flow of the Nile River is legendary, as evidenced by the story of Joseph and the Pharaoh, whose dream foretold seven years...

Declines in prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing that came after changes in government screening guidelines have abated in recent years, according to a new study....

The largest genomic analysis of puberty timing in men and women conducted to date has identified 389 genetic signals associated with puberty timing, four times...

PHILADELPHIA -- (April 24, 2017) -- The RNA editing protein ADAR1 was first discovered several decades ago. Now, scientists at The Wistar Institute have identified...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that surgery could more than double life expectancy for many patients with late-stage kidney cancer, giving them...

Credit: Federica Bertocchini, Paolo Bombelli, and Chris Howe Generally speaking, plastic is incredibly resistant to breaking down. That's certainly true of the trillion polyethylene plastic...

Loading video... Credit: César Hernández/Ainhoa Goñi A research scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Federica Bertocchini, has discovered that wax worms (Galleria mellonella),...

Credit: César Hernández/CSIC Scientists have found that a caterpillar commercially bred for fishing bait has the ability to biodegrade polyethylene: one of the toughest and...

Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - When the standard malaria medications failed to help 18 critically ill patients, the attending physician in a...

Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois Using an atomic quantum simulator, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have achieved the first-ever direct...

Credit: Vladimer Gregory/CeMM (Vienna, April 24, 2016) Our immune system consists of a great variety of cell types fulfilling diverse tasks in monitoring tissue homeostasis...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - April 24, 2017 - Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed a first-of-its-kind nanoparticle vaccine immunotherapy that targets several...

Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health Gallbladder cancer is a rare, but aggressive disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about...

CHAPEL HILL -- Although the health risks associated with indoor tanning are clear, tanning bed use among college-aged women is still popular. A new study...

Loading video... Credit: Jingyuan Qu, Muamer Kadic, and Martin Wegener WASHINGTON, D.C., April t24, 2017 -- In the not-too-distant future, it may be possible to...