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The latest outbreaks of emerging, dangerous pathogens, such as Ebola, MERS-CoV or Zika, emphasise the importance of the rapid development of effective vaccines. However, being...

Credit: Wake Forest University Hidden in plain sight - that's how researchers describe their discovery of a new genus of large forest tree commonly found,...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München have developed a new method for reconstructing continuous biological...

A new study, published today in the journal Political Geography, shows that there is no sound evidence that global climate change was a factor in...

Scientists at the University of York, in collaboration with researchers at Western Sydney University, have shown that the Australian Magpie may 'dunk' its food in...

Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan--Many bacteria release membrane vesicles, which are nanoscale spheres consisting of a cellular membrane containing various biomolecules. Membrane vesicle..

Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In 2016, this was the most common causative pathogen for death by infectious diseases. Therefore, investigating the biology of...

Research on birds in northern Europe reveals that there is an ongoing considerable species turnover due to climate change and due to land use and...

Sixteen years after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers sent a "cloud" of toxic debris across Lower Manhattan, children living nearby who likely...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have invented a fast, affordable way for developing communities to test their drinking water for potentially deadly E. coli....

(University of Texas at Austin) A team of scientists and engineers has invented a powerful tool that rapidly and accurately identifies cancerous tissue during surgery,...

Credit: Vivian Abagiu/Univ. of Texas at Austin Scientists have developed a handheld probe capable of non-destructively distinguishing between tumors and healthy tissue within 10 seconds,...

TAMPA, Fla. (Sept. 6, 2017) - Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide, with almost 300,000 deaths occurring each year....

(Boston)-- Red-haired people are known for pale skin, freckles, poor tanning ability and unfortunately, an increased risk for developing skin cancer. Research has shown that...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center For many years, oncologists have known that cancers can secrete complex molecules into the blood and that levels of...