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Credit: Wilson Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 30, 2017) - Rice University researchers have synthesized a new and greatly improved generation of contrast agents...

Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health Osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease, is a genetic disorder that causes bones to break easily....

Credit: Joshua McMichael The body of knowledge on cancer genomics is massive and ever-expanding. But this wealth of potentially critical information is far less likely...

Some cancer cells have a trick up their sleeve to avoid cell death: boosting maintenance of telomeres, the protective "end caps" on chromosomes, and a...

Credit: OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff OHSU scientists have uncovered a method for quickly and efficiently mapping the genome of single cells within the body. Their findings, to...

Oxford University Press and the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus (ISDE) are pleased to announce their new partnership to publish Diseases of the...

Credit: Christoph Bock/CeMM (Vienna, 30 January 2017) Tumors of the elderly, such as breast cancer and colon cancer, accumulate thousands of DNA mutations. These genetic...

Credit: Image courtesy of Rob Jackson. Without a significant effort to reduce greenhouse gases, including an accelerated deployment of technologies for capturing atmospheric carbon and...

Credit: Glen Fleishman (Creative Commons licence) A joint project between conservationists and electronics experts at the University of Kent has developed miniature radio devices in...

Credit: University at Buffalo. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- You've seen Bear Grylls turn foul water into drinking water with little more than sunlight and plastic. Now,...

Credit: Image courtesy of Dr. Patrick Mulholland, Medical University of South Carolina A handful of FDA-approved drugs exist for treating individuals with alcohol use disorder...

Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Satellite data from NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite showed that former Tropical Cyclone 03S resembled a frontal system in...

Credit: Amy Nelson/Keck School of Medicine of USC Abnormality with special cells that wrap around blood vessels in the brain leads to neuron deterioration, possibly...

Researchers led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) report on the synthesis of a library of more than 330,000 reference peptides representing essentially all...

Although we can't feel it, we're in constant motion: the earth spins on its axis at about 1,600 km/h; it orbits around the sun at...