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Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have mapped the conformational changes that occur in a protein "notorious" for pumping chemotherapeutic drugs out of cancer cells...

There are already one billion tobacco smokers worldwide, and this number is likely to rise further with Asian tobacco companies poised to enter the global...

New light-scattering tool offers minimally-invasive, highly accurate means of identifying pre-cancerous and cancerous pancreatic lesions. Currently, no diagnostic technique exists to reliably distingu..

A team of New York University chemists has created self-assembled, three-dimensional DNA crystals that can bind a separate, dye-bearing strand--a breakthrough that enhances the functionality...

ANN ARBOR--Extremely short, configurable "femtosecond" pulses of light demonstrated by an international team could lead to future computers that run up to 100,000 times faster...

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Researchers have for the first time mapped how one of the longest-serving malaria drugs works, opening...

Credit: Christa Neu, Lehigh University Communications + Public Affairs It is easy to speculate why fish might swim in schools -- better protection from predators,...

Credit: Xavier Lucas, Alessio Ciulli, University of Dundee Scientists at the University of Dundee have reported a major breakthrough in targeting the causes of many...

Credit: Courtesy of La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology LA JOLLA, CA -- Although Zika and dengue are considered different virus "species," they are...

Credit: Masayuki Hashisaka Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation have developed a "spin-resolved oscilloscope." This device is a...

Credit: Jean-Daniel Stanley and Pablo L. Clemente and GSA Today. Boulder, Colorado, USA: A multi-year study of Egypt's Nile Delta places the country's major breadbasket...

Credit: C. Clerck (1757) (left) and M. Roberts (1985) (right) It goes without saying that scientific research has to build on previous breakthroughs and publications....

Credit: University of Alberta When Mexico introduced sweeping energy reforms in 2014 that ended 75 years of the state's oil and gas monopoly, it opened...

RUSTON, La. - Louisiana Tech University's Center for Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation Science (CBERS) and its Consortium on Neuronal Networks in Epilepsy and Memory (NeuroNEM)...

Credit: (Photo by Randy Montoya) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Dan Sinars, a senior manager in Sandia National Laboratories' pulsed power center, which built and operates the...