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Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(April 6, 2017) When scientists talk about laboratory stem cells being totipotent or pluripotent, they mean that the cells have the...

Credit: Jason Richards, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., April 6, 2017 - Virginia-based Lenvio Inc. has exclusively licensed a cyber security...

Credit: Jintao Liu, Suel lab, University of California, San Diego While researchers have not known whether bacteria in separate populations can communicate to coordinate behavior,...

Credit: AMBER, Trinity College Dublin Researchers in AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland-funded materials science research centre hosted in Trinity College Dublin, have fabricated printed transis..

Credit: USGS/J.P. Eaton Earth's mantle is made of solid rock that nonetheless circulates slowly over millions of years. Some geologists assume that this slow circulation...

Credit: Kristina Chang/Berkeley Lab The ephemeral electron movements in a transient state of a reaction important in biochemical and optoelectronic processes have been captured and,...

Credit: NSF/Google Maps Today, 156 early career engineering faculty begin a five-year journey that will take them to the frontiers of fundamental engineering research. Supported...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Aneuploidy is a condition in which cells contain an abnormal number of chromosomes, and is known to be the cause of many...

Credit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash.--Washington State University researchers have found a promising way to preserve sperm stem cells so boys could undergo cancer treatment...

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) has published appropriate use criteria (AUC) for bone scintigraphy (scans to identify bone metastases) in patients...

Credit: Yamada and Gotoh et al. Breast milk provides vital nutrients not only to infants, but also to beneficial microbes that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract....

Credit: Andrew Tang Much of stem cell research over the past decade has focused on Mendelian disorders -- those caused by a single gene, such...

Credit: Liscovitch-Brauer et al./Cell 2017 Octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish often do not follow the genetic instructions in their DNA to the letter. Instead, they use...

Credit: Tom Kleindinst WOODS HOLE, Mass.-- Octopus, squid, and cuttlefish are famous for engaging in complex behavior, from unlocking an aquarium tank and escaping to...

Credit: Illustration by Dr. Stephen Duncan, Medical University of South Carolina Scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have found that a class...