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(Edmonton, AB) Groundbreaking research from the University of Alberta has identified the structure of the infectious prion protein, the cause of "mad cow disease" or...

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In both cell cultures and mouse models, a drug used to treat Hepatitis C effectively protected and...

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – January 5, 2018. Despite December's lag in U.S. job numbers, Americans with disabilities continued to show strong gains...

Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health According to the American Heart Association, approximately 2,200 Americans die each day from heart attacks, strokes and other...

A combination of two compounds found in red grapes and oranges could be used to improve the health of people with diabetes, and reduce cases...

Credit: University of Exeter Organelles are the functional units of a cell. Like different parts of a production line in a factory, they perform specialised...

Credit: R.M. Brown LAWRENCE — A new paper appearing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows a varied collection of lizards throughout Asia to...

Credit: Eindhoven University of Technology Smart windows that act as blinds in the summer and let all the sunlight through in the winter. That's the...

Credit: E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune NEW YORK, NY (October 10, 2016)–Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University have...

In a discovery that could offer valuable insights into understanding, diagnosing, and even treating autism, Harvard scientists for the first time have linked a specific...

HIV drug resistance to tenofovir, an antiretroviral drug vital to most modern HIV treatment and prevention strategies, is surprisingly and worryingly common according to a...

Credit: Giovanni Bindellini Little is known about the origin and early evolution of the Notosuchia, hitherto unknown in the Jurassic period. New research on fossils...

Credit: Lindsay Arvin Trees growing atop the Bald Mountain Granite in the southern Sierra Nevada rely on nutrients from windblown atmospheric dust — more than...

Credit: Sainsbury Wellcome Centre A powerful new tool for the study of spatial memory was today described in Nature as a significant improvement over the...

Credit: Yale Cancer Center New Haven, Conn. — Many clinical trials for breast cancer fail to give clear answers on the efficacy of new therapies,...