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A transparent object can be physically present yet nearly invisible to an ordinary camera. Glass, plastic films and living cells often produce little change in...

Cancer research is entering an era in which tumors are no longer viewed as isolated masses of abnormal human cells. A growing body of evidence...

LAWRENCE, Kansas — A University of Kansas project aimed at upgrading one of the Large Hadron Collider’s most specialized detection systems has secured $1 million...

A newly published review has identified the transcription factor FOXA2 as one of the central molecular coordinators linking pancreatic development to lifelong control of blood...

The MYH9 gene is emerging as a critical biological switch at the intersection of cancer progression and inherited disease, according to a comprehensive review published...

Sugarcane’s extraordinary genetic complexity has finally yielded one of its oldest biological secrets. A new study has resolved how certain sugarcane hybrids inherit an unusually...

Bladder cancer care is entering a molecular era in which the most important question may no longer be only where a tumour is located, but...

A new study has identified an important spatial principle governing how mitochondria support developing neurons: the machinery that controls mitochondrial calcium is not distributed evenly...

A global push to limit warming to 1.5 °C could create an unexpected threat to food security: less land available for farming. A new perspective...

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is among the world’s most challenging cancers, accounting for approximately 90% of malignancies arising in the mouth, throat,...

Coal pyrolysis may have found a surprisingly simple way to become more selective. Researchers from Chongqing University and Monash University have used ordinary quartz particles...

A new review in Genes & Diseases examines how circular RNAs, or circRNAs, could help scientists understand and control one of oncology’s most persistent problems:...

Water scarcity is becoming one of the most serious threats to global agriculture as climate change intensifies droughts and raises temperatures. Now, an international research...

Scientists have reconstructed a possible sequence of events linking the chemistry of hydrothermal vents to the emergence of the first free-living cells—and their findings suggest...

Multiple sclerosis has long been understood as a disease in which immune cells attack the central nervous system, but the cellular conversations that sustain this...