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A new review investigates the effects of avocados on different components of metabolic syndrome, which is a clustering of risk factors including high blood sugar,...

A five-year, $13 million collaboration between Michigan State University and The MasterCard Foundation will help 15,000 young people access employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in the...

Credit: NYU Langone Medical Center Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center and its Perlmutter Cancer Center have uncovered a critical pathway by which pancreatic cancer...

Disagreement persists between professional societies and organizations over the best time to start and to discontinue mammography for breast cancer screening, as well as the...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 10, 2017-A new study shows that the threat of firearm use by a male partner...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Most ovarian cancer is diagnosed at such late stages that patients' survival rates are poor. However, if the cancer is detected earlier,...

Credit: Vince Crichton EDMONTON (Monday, April 10, 2017)--Ecologists in the University of Alberta's Department of Biological Sciences have developed an app to improve population modeling...

Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan - Researchers at Nagoya University have reported in Nature Communications, on the development of an organic catalyst (organocatalyst) that...

Credit: MIPT Press Office An international team including researchers from MIPT's Laboratory for Advanced Studies of Membrane Proteins have proposed an explanation of the way...

Professor Federico Rosei, Director of the INRS Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, is the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Engineer Award from IEEE (Institute of Electrical...

A new study led by UC San Francisco has found that radiation doses can be safely and effectively reduced - and more consistently administered -...

PHILADELPHIA -- Despite the success of immunotherapies based on blocking the programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) receptor protein in metastatic melanoma patients, more than half...

Credit: Xin Zou/Penn State A nanoscale product of human cells that was once considered junk is now known to play an important role in intercellular...

Credit: IBS Researchers at the Center for Genomic Engineering, within the Institute of Basic Science (IBS) proved the accuracy of a recently developed gene editing...

Credit: CRAG Each year, fungal infections destroy at least 125 million tons of the world's five most important crops -rice, wheat, maize, soybeans and potatoes-...