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A simple paper sheet made by scientists at Uppsala University can improve the quality of life for millions of people by removing resistant viruses from...

BAR HARBOR, MAINE – Wound healing is not a one-size-fits-all process. MDI Biological Laboratory Assistant Professor, Vicki P. Losick, Ph.D, has recently discovered a new...

A small number of patients infected by HIV spontaneously control viral replication without antiretroviral therapy, and do not develop the disease. The ability of these...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), of which Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are the main types, is on the increase in the United...

Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma team of chemists has developed a new antibiotic formulation to fight the sometimes deadly staph infection caused...

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Personal Robotics Lab PITTSBURGH–Clutter is a special challenge for robots, but new Carnegie Mellon University software is helping robots cope, whether...

As the human brain develops, neurons leave their birthplace and take a trip to distant locations. Once they reach their final destination, the neurons then...

The number of children with severe heart failure is increasing. Over the last decade, ventricular assist devices (VADs) have become the standard of care in...

While investigating a potential therapeutic target for the ERK1 and 2 pathway, a widely expressed signaling molecule known to drive cancer growth in one third...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Human immunodeficiency virus is known to be a highly variable virus that adapts to a person’s immune response during the lifetime infection,...

Nematode worms may not be from Mars or Venus, but they do have sex-specific circuits in their brains that cause the males and females to...

EAST LANSING, Mich. – A rare, severe form of pulmonary hypertension, which up until now, has only been classified as a human lung disease, has...

A mutation that affects the proteins that package DNA–without changing the DNA itself–can cause a rare form of cancer, according to new findings in this...

A team of MIT and Harvard University students who invented a smartphone-connected sensor that detects lung cancer from a single breath took home the grand...

Credit: Melanie Gonick/MIT In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute...