Credit: Associate Professor Tsuyoshi Shuto Researchers from Kumamoto University, Japan have succeeded in producing a mouse model that faithfully reproduces the pathologies of two intractable...
Credit: Chuanlong Lin and Guoyin Shen, Carnegie Institution Phase transitions surround us--for instance, liquid water changes to ice when frozen and to steam when boiled....
A new analysis reveals that for most women, the risk of dying from cervical cancer is higher than previously thought. Unlike prior estimates that also...
E-cigarettes - thought by some to be responsible for a decline in youth cigarette smoking - are actually attracting a new population of adolescents who...
A woman's risk of dying of cervical cancer is higher than long believed, particularly among older and black women, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of...
Credit: The Sainsbury Laboratory Together with collaborators in Austria, scientists at The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) in Norwich (UK) are unravelling the complex mechanisms underlying plants'...
Credit: Yongqi Shao, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Beneficial bacteria in the gut of moth larvae produce an antimicrobial agent that kills competing bacteria which otherwise...
Fighting off cancer requires the concerted efforts of immune molecules throughout the body, rather than just in the tumor itself, according to a new study...
Scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered the mechanisms behind a genetic change known to cause a set of related diseases. A new study,...
How well a tumor responds to immunotherapy may depend in part on whether its chromosomes are intact or in a state of disarray, a new...
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, as well as a cause of various cancers, and a...
Credit: Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech A simple technique for producing oxide nanowires directly from bulk materials could dramatically lower the cost of producing the...
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA - January 19, 2017 - A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has...
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Credit: Illustration credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech Is there anybody out there? The question of whether Earthlings are alone in the universe has puzzled everyone from biologists and...
