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Bismuth salts are used as medicinally active ingredients for the past many years due to their minimum toxicity and side effects. It is important to...

Credit: John Pinfield An international team of astronomers has identified a record breaking brown dwarf (a star too small for nuclear fusion) with the 'purest'...

Credit: (Photo: KIT) Nothing works without proteins in the body, they are the molecular all-rounders in our cells. If they do not work properly, severe...

A special kind of small sulfur-rich proteins, the metallothioneins, have an extraordinarily large capability for binding heavy metals. An international team of scientists has now...

Hamilton, ON (Mar. 22, 2016) - McMaster University researchers have discovered that while survivors of childhood brain tumours have a similar Body Mass Index (BMI)...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center By the time Ewing's Sarcoma is diagnosed, primarily in teens and young adults, it has often spread from its...

Credit: Ivan Prates It all began with a photograph of a lizard posted on Facebook in August 2015 by the Brazilian Herpetology group. It was...

How a disease outbreak affects a group of animals depends on the breakdown of ages in the population, research has shown. The findings could help...

Credit: Sarah Bird, Michigan Tech A person doesn't have to get sick to catch a virus. Researchers hope to catch viruses for detection and vaccinations...

Carbapenems are among the "antibiotics of last resort" and can fight infections for which other drugs have long lost their effectiveness. However, even carbapenem-resistant pathogenic...

Credit: University of Plymouth According to the American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID), 15 million Americans have crown or bridge replacements and three million have...

Credit: University of Konstanz In a complex series of experiments they examined what the effects were of changing a single amino acid in the protein....

One day, patients may be able to monitor their body's response to cancer therapy just by having their blood drawn. A new study, led by...

Credit: OIST Unlike experimental neuroscientists who deal with real-life neurons, computational neuroscientists use model simulations to investigate how the brain functions. While many computationa..

Nuclear amplification testing is commonly used for pathogen detection; however, the process is currently manually intensive and complex, and requires dedicated equipment. This prevents its...