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Credit: Benjamin Fritch As cells create proteins, the proteins modulate synthesis speed by exerting a mechanical force on the molecular machine that makes them, according...

Credit: NOAA image Emissions of one of the chemicals most responsible for the Antarctic ozone hole are on the rise, despite an international treaty that...

Credit: Andrea Camino The American College of Chest Physicians® (CHEST) received a $3 million charitable grant from the Olympus Corporation's Grants Committee. This equipment grant,...

ROCKVILLE, MD - A trio of papers co-authored by four National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) scientists has been published this week in highly-cited and...

CHICAGO --- The death of her mother from ovarian cancer when Dr. Sui Huang was only 12 led to her lifelong scientific pursuit and a...

Researchers have identified a compound that blocks the spread of pancreatic and other cancers in various animal models. When cancer spreads from one part of...

CLEVELAND - Cleveland Clinic researchers have demonstrated for the first time that lowering blood cholesterol levels could enhance the success of a specific type of...

A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine shows that bacterial signals are crucial to the development of a precursor condition to...

Credit: Raimund Dutzler, UZH Human cells are enclosed by membranes and are in osmotic equilibrium with their environment. If the concentration of solute molecules (osmolarity)...

ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that a molecular communication pathway - thought to be defective in cancer - is a key player...

Credit: Toomas Silla Gene expression involves mRNA transport from its place of synthesis to the cytoplasm where protein translation occurs. However, many non-coding RNA species...

Credit: Péter Poczai The first complete plastome nucleotide sequence was published in 1986 for tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) of the nightshade family (Solanaceae). This economically...

Credit: James Bordovsky Plants need water--but what about when it's running low? Is it possible to use less water and still have healthy crops? In...

Credit: Fábio Rogerio One of the most frequent causes of drug-resistant epilepsy, considered a difficult disease to control, is a brain malformation known as focal...

Credit: PHOTO CREDIT Dwight Andrews, UTHealth In a landmark study, researchers found that patients treated with paramedic oxygen delivery using a newer, more flexible laryngeal...