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PHILADELPHIA -- Radiation therapists and physicians know that education can reduce anxiety before radiation treatment but lack a standardized tool. In an effort to solve...

Investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center have identified the first genetic mechanisms conferring acquired resistance to a promising group of targeted cancer...

Credit: Image courtesy Sebastian Kadener A group of scientists in Israel and Germany, led by Prof. Sebastian Kadener from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, have...

Credit: IST Austria Antibiotics harm bacteria and stress them. Trimethoprim (TMP), an antibiotic, inhibits the growth of the bacterium Escherichia coli and induces a stress...

Credit: Anass Chiki/EPFL Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes patients to lose their ability to move, speak, and even think. It is caused...

Credit: Original image by NASA, European Space Agency and the Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields team. Color composite from Wikimedia Commons/Judy Schmidt; annotations and zoom...

Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University has landed a $727,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to improve the...

Credit: commonfree In the past decades, we have seen a dramatic decline in biodiversity around the world. Every day, species are irrecoverably lost on an...

Among ecologists, carbon gets all the glory. Scientists examine its critical role in plant growth and decay, they chart its contributions to greenhouse gases, and...

Credit: A.J. Plumptre/WCS Yet another endemic species for the DRC's Kabobo Massif has been discovered, bringing the number of unique species known for the region...

Researchers have generated the first immortalised cell lines which allow more efficient manufacture of red blood cells. The team, from the University of Bristol and...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 23, 2017--Researchers studying chronic inflammation that can lead to the development of lung diseases such...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 23, 2017--Arm anthropometry is a simple method to determine if a person is overweight or...

Credit: RUB, Marquard Growth of colorectal cancer cells can be inhibited with the odorant troenan. This is reported by the research team headed by Prof...

Credit: UGRdivulga Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR), and from the Center for Electrochemical Research and Technological Development (Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico..