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Credit: Kobe University When excess light energy is absorbed by plants during photosynthesis, harmful reactive oxygen species are produced. These reactive oxygen species break down...

Individual pieces of a jigsaw puzzle joined together as if moved by magic - that is what material researchers of Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) imagine...

This could be good news for those trying to prevent preterm labor: New research published online in The FASEB Journal suggests that exposing bitter taste...

Heidelberg, 8 June 2017 - Maya Schuldiner from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel is the recipient of the 2017 EMBO Gold Medal. She...

According to research published online in The FASEB Journal, repeated irradiation of breast fat (also known as adipose tissue) produces an inflammatory response that ultimately...

Montreal, June 8, 2017 - The success of kidney transplant is dependent on the age and sex of both the donor and the recipient, according...

Credit: LA BioMed LOS ANGELES - (June 8, 2017) - The Medical Mycology Society of the Americas has honored John E. "Jack" Edwards, Jr., MD,...

Credit: IBS Exchange of iodide (iodine ions) between bloodstream and cells is crucial for the health of several organs and its malfunctioning is linked to...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Scientists have armed immune cells with a new surface molecule. This causes the cells to...

Credit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan - People rate food as tasting better, and eat more of it, when they eat with company than when they...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Building on insights from an HIV vaccine regimen in humans that had partial success during a phase 3 clinical trial in Thailand,...

Credit: Laboratory of Biomolecular Engineering and Nanomedicine/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 8, 2017) - The endothelial cells that line blood vessels are packed tightly to...

New Haven, Conn. - An analysis of breast cancer data revealed that many small breast cancers have an excellent prognosis because they are inherently slow...

Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (June 8, 2017) -- Patients who receive the standard surgical treatment for melanoma that has spread to one or more key...

Researchers have shown for the first time that combining two immunotherapy drugs could be effective in treating triple negative breast cancers arising in women with...