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Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Many scientists are paying new attention to prebiotics, that is, molecules we eat but cannot digest, because some may...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Three case reports published in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrate the promise of cancer immunotherapy in gray...

Annapolis, Md.; July 5, 2017 -- Thanks to citizen volunteers, scientists now know more than ever about the flies that attack monarch butterfly caterpillars. Since...

Credit: Kobe University High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) is known as "good" cholesterol, because HDL particles removes excess cholesterol from arterial walls and transport them back...

Credit: Journal of Orthoptera Research and Pensoft The Orthopterists' Society's Journal of Orthoptera Research (JOR) joins the growing portfolio of open access titles published on...

Credit: Toshimich Yamamoto Nagoya, Japan - Most people would agree that painful mosquito bites are an especially annoying part of summer. Except perhaps forensic scientists,...

Credit: Department of Cell Signaling,Department of Orthodontic Science?TMDU) Recently, frequency of mastication has dramatically decreased along with changes in dietary habits. Masticatory stimulat..

Credit: Photo courtesy of Ken Shepard New York, NY--July 10, 2017--Today, implanted electrode devices for stimulating the brain are extremely crude devices with only a...

The Standards of Care Committee of the British Society for Allergy & Clinical Immunology (BSACI) is to publish updated guidance on the diagnosis and management...

A new study conducted by an international team of lung cancer researchers, including Professor John Field from the University of Liverpool, have identified new genetic...

Oil spills not only have a direct impact on species and habitats, but may also set off a cascade of perturbations that affect the entire...

Morristown, N.J., July 10, 2017 - An exciting new peer reviewed publication based on ongoing research on macular carotenoids from the University of Georgia demonstrates...

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Materials scientists at Rice University are looking to nature -- at the discs in human spines and the skin in ocean-diving...

Credit: Nurmikko lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With a grant of up to $19 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 10, 2017--Researchers have successfully used a noninvasive intranasal approach to deliver the gene for the...