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Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 20, 2016) - As the valves in a heart stretch with each beat, their cells take in life-giving...

Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology Traditional computer memory, known as DRAM, uses electric fields to store information. In DRAM, the presence or absence of an...

Professor Frédéric Veyrier's most recent research, in collaboration with the team of Professor Hilde De Reuse at the Institut Pasteur, has shed light on key...

In the Arctic, the Inuits have adapted to severe cold and a predominantly seafood diet. After the first population genomic analysis of the Greenland Inuits...

Credit: Benjamin Wetzel Researchers from INRS and the FEMTO-ST Institute in France have used a novel measurement technique that magnifies time to reveal how ultrafast...

In its search for extrasolar planets, the Kepler space telescope looks for stars whose light flux periodically dims, signaling the passing of an orbiting planet...

Credit: Yun Hang Hu, Michigan Tech A little sodium goes a long way. At least that's the case in carbon-based energy technology. Specifically, embedding sodium...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Dec. 20, 2016 - UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have invented a transistor-like threshold sensor that can illuminate cancer tissue,...

Baltimore, MD - Dec. 20, 2016 - In a first-in-children randomized clinical study, medical researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM)...

Scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Miami, and Shantou University...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Scientists have used systems biology tools to map out molecular pathways and signaling circuits that come into play when the...

Bioelectronics, sometimes called the next medical frontier, is a research field that combines electronics and biology to develop miniaturized implantable devices capable of altering and...

Scientists might be able to quickly predict how ovarian cancer patients are likely to respond to chemotherapy treatment using a simple blood test, according to...

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Metabolons, near-mythical clusters of enzymes, have been discovered for the first time. Using fluorescent tags and microscopy -- molecular movie technology...

Levels of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) detected in a blood test are correlated with the size of ovarian cancers and can predict a patient's response...