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Credit: Anass Chiki/EPFL Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes patients to lose their ability to move, speak, and even think. It is caused...

Credit: Original image by NASA, European Space Agency and the Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields team. Color composite from Wikimedia Commons/Judy Schmidt; annotations and zoom...

Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University has landed a $727,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to improve the...

Credit: commonfree In the past decades, we have seen a dramatic decline in biodiversity around the world. Every day, species are irrecoverably lost on an...

Among ecologists, carbon gets all the glory. Scientists examine its critical role in plant growth and decay, they chart its contributions to greenhouse gases, and...

Credit: A.J. Plumptre/WCS Yet another endemic species for the DRC's Kabobo Massif has been discovered, bringing the number of unique species known for the region...

Researchers have generated the first immortalised cell lines which allow more efficient manufacture of red blood cells. The team, from the University of Bristol and...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 23, 2017--Researchers studying chronic inflammation that can lead to the development of lung diseases such...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 23, 2017--Arm anthropometry is a simple method to determine if a person is overweight or...

Credit: RUB, Marquard Growth of colorectal cancer cells can be inhibited with the odorant troenan. This is reported by the research team headed by Prof...

Credit: UGRdivulga Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR), and from the Center for Electrochemical Research and Technological Development (Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico..

Frank Wilczek, professor at the Department of Physics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Johan Rockström, Professor of Environmental Science and Director of the...

ANN ARBOR--Thin parts of the cell membranes of neurons turn out to be particularly vulnerable to a protein that collects in the brain of people...

Credit: Aalto University Platinum is a very expensive metal and it is therefore one of the bottlenecks hindering the growth of renewable energy. Platinum is...

Credit: Image courtesy of Cheng Ji. Washington, DC--Hydrogen is both the simplest and the most-abundant element in the universe, so studying it can teach scientists...