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Credit: Geology, Victoria A. Hudspith and Claire M. Belcher Boulder, Colo., USA: One of the main types of fossil used to understand the first flowering...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Although current treatments for iron-deficiency anemia can be effective, they commonly fail because pediatric patients do not complete the treatment...

Credit: Eddy Perez, LSU Biologists have always been fascinated by the diversity and changeability of life on Earth and have attempted to answer a fundamental...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University are paving the way for more precision in determining surgical margins for an aggressive tumor common in...

Credit: (Illustration by Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga) CHAPEL HILL, NC - UNC School of Medicine researchers have cracked a long-standing mystery about an important enzyme found in...

Older adults with elevated levels of brain-clogging plaques -- but otherwise normal cognition -- experience faster mental decline suggestive of Alzheimer's disease, according to a...

Credit: Christian Lohrmann, Jason Lewis, Wolfgang Weber, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; MabVax Therapeutics DENVER, Colo. - Pancreatic cancer is associated with bleak five-year survival...

There has been no known link between diabetes and vitamin A - until now. A new study suggests that the vitamin improves the insulin producing...

Credit: Image: Mezzenga Lab / ETH Zurich The news story made a big splash: in January 2016 ETH researchers Professor Raffaele Mezzenga and his senior...

Exactly when and where individual neurons develop is as important to our understanding of brain diseases as the underlying genetics, experts have shown. New research...

Credit: Timothy Mosca Many neurological diseases are malfunctions of synapses, or the points of contact between neurons that allow senses and other information to pass...

TAMPA, Fla. (June 13, 2017) - Testicular cancer is relatively rare with only 8,850 cases expected this year in the United States. A majority of...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- For many patients, participating in gene therapy clinical trials isn't an option because their immune system recognizes and fights the helpful virus...

A team of scientists has discovered a new crystal form of DDT that is more effective against insects than the existing one. Its research, which...

(Boston) -- Impairment of a particular gene raises increases susceptibility to opioid addiction liability as well as vulnerability to binge eating according to a new...