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LA JOLLA, CA – November 2, 2015 – Cancer metastasis occurs when tumor cells escape from a primary tumor, via the blood stream, and establish...

Credit: American Academy of Sleep Medicine. DARIEN, IL – Oct. 13, 2017 – A new position statement published by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine...

A new web tool, MyGene2, will enable patients and their families to join clinicians and scientists in the search for genes underlying rare disorders. The...

Snails have been hailed as nutritious delicacies, providing early humans with part of their healthy diet for thousands of years. But more recently, the shells...

Plant breeders test their experiments by growing the seeds of their labor. They cross two different plants that have desirable traits. They sow the resulting...

Credit: EWB AMHERST, Mass. – Results of the two-year, $8 million Great Elephant Census (GEC) of African savannah elephants led by Elephants Without Borders (EWB)...

Mountain gorillas from Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda eat up to 30 kilos of plants a day and their diet is highly varied in a...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (October 11, 2017) – Are people’s sexual attractions likely to change as they age? That’s the question at the core of an ongoing...

Credit: Rohan Dharmakumar. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center RESTON, Va. — More than 5 million cardiac stress tests performed annually in the U.S. employ injectable forms of...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Oncologists and researchers use a measurement known as Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) to evaluate the degree...

Credit: Alexa M Schmitz/Yang Bai Centuries ago, the ancient networks of the Silk Road facilitated a political and economic openness between the nations of Eurasia....

Human noroviruses – the leading viral cause of acute diarrhea around the world – have been difficult to study because scientists had not found a...

New Rochelle, NY, May 12, 2016–Combining the therapeutic potential and advantages of existing oligonucleotide-based approaches to turn off disease-related genes, a type of single-stranded silencing...

Credit: Department of Neuropathology, TMDU Study led by Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) identifies crucial protein that rescues progression of adult spinocerebellar ataxia Tokyo...

A large achievement gap between dyslexic and typical readers is already present at first grade and persists throughout school; therefore, it is critical to identify...