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Credit: Photo by Jian Huang. Mountains, like rainforests, are hotbeds of biodiversity. But scientists aren't sure why. For years, they've thought that it might be...

Credit: IMAS A new international study led by scientists from IMAS and the University's Centre for Marine Socioecology has highlighted how humans are being affected...

Loading video... Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Twelve percent of childhood cancer survivors carry germline mutations that put them or their children at increased...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (April 3, 2017) - The one-size-fits-all approach to early stage breast cancer creates a paradox: Millions of dollars are spent on unnecessary surgeries...

Bose-Einstein condensates - often called the "fifth state of matter", the other four states being solids, liquids, gases and plasmas - are obtained when atoms...

Scientists at the University of York have developed a technique that will enhance the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in identifying disease. MRI and...

PITTSBURGH, April 3, 2017 - Picking up a slice of pizza or sending a text message: Scientists long believed that the brain signals for those...

Credit: DFCI WASHINGTON -- New research suggests that some patients with head and neck cancers can benefit by continuing treatment with an immunotherapy drug after...

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center have been named to a new colorectal cancer dream team that was...

Credit: Bo Jungmayer / Fred Hutch News Service Dr. Marie Bleakley, a pediatric oncology physician-scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has received a 2017...

Credit: Duke University Researchers have developed a method to swiftly screen the non-coding DNA of the human genome for links to diseases that are driven...

Every time you throw a ball, swing a golf club, reach for a jar on a shelf, or cradle a baby, you can thank your...

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- April 3, 2017 -- A team of researchers report a significant genetic association linked to an aggressive form of melanoma in a...

Credit: Jasminca Behrmann-Godel Researchers reporting in Current Biology on April 3 have discovered the first European cave fish. A hobby cave diver first sighted the...

Credit: Birgit Luef, Norwegian University of Science and Technology It's the stuff of science fiction, though there's nothing fiction about it: Researchers have discovered a...