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BROOKLYN, New York - Titanium is the preferred material for surgical fixation procedures ranging from knee replacement to jaw implants. However, since this super-strong metal...

A team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has identified a new cancer-causing pathway behind most cases of an aggressive type of leukemia, findings...

Overall breast cancer death rates dropped 39 percent between 1989 and 2015, averting 322,600 breast cancer deaths during those 26 years. And while black women...

Credit: Dr. Alptekin Aksan A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities has reported a novel encapsulation approach in identifying dormant cancer cells...

Credit: C Kratochwil et al., University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany RESTON, Va. - Therapy options are limited for men with advanced-stage, metastatic castration-resistant prostate canc..

WASHINGTON -- Up to 6.6 million cigarette smokers will live substantially longer if cigarette smoking is replaced by vaping over a ten-year period, calculates a...

(Portland, Ore.) Oct. 3, 2017 - Nearly 300 aquatic species have landed on American shores since the 2011 Japanese tsunami by hitching rides on manmade...

How do fire-suppression chemicals and pesticides affect wildfire smoke and the health of those who breathe it? UC Davis graduate students discovered that this question...

Credit: Angelyn Nguyen/UCLA UCLA biophysicists have developed a new method to rapidly determine a single cell's stiffness and size -- which could ultimately lead to...

Credit: Igor Slowing In every plant--from trees to crops--there exists a substance that makes up its wood or stems, fiber, and cell walls. This substance...

They are everywhere, but invisible to the naked eye. Microbes are the unseen, influential forces behind the regulation of key environmental processes such as the...

Credit: Edward Kalkreuter Researchers from North Carolina State University have engineered designer biosensors that can detect antibiotic molecules of interest. The biosensors are a first...

Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Dr. David Fitzpatrick, Scientific Director and CEO at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI), has been...

Credit: NCI DALLAS - Oct. 3, 2017 - Research led by Dr. Carlos Arteaga, Director of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, has identified...

UC Santa Barbara's Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) has received its sixth consecutive multimillion-dollar grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund six years of...