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Breast cancer patients who receive the drug Herceptin for nine weeks as part of their post-surgery chemotherapy regime may enjoy better health outcomes, according to...

It's what's missing in the tumor genome, not what's mutated, that thwarts treatment of metastatic melanoma with immune checkpoint blockade drugs, researchers at The University...

Credit: Manuchehrabadi et al., Science Translational Medicine (2017) Overcoming a major hurdle in transplant medicine, a new study reveals that nanotechnology can be used to...

Credit: Haynes research group, University of Minnesota A research team, led by the University of Minnesota, has discovered a groundbreaking process to successfully rewarm large-scale...

Credit: John W. Ayers A new study harnesses social media data to explore--in their own words--the reasons people use e-cigarettes and why they started vaping...

An enzyme that helps break down cholesterol may also be a therapeutic target to stave off neurologic diseases, including Alzheimer's and a rare genetic disorder,...

Credit: Neil Hammerschlag Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that up to 90 percent of predatory fish are gone...

Credit: Wits University Why we sleep is one of the enduring unanswered mysteries of modern science. Along with such activities as eating, protecting oneself and...

Credit: Clair Keene Organic farmers have to make hard choices between protecting soil from erosion and controlling weeds. For example, large-scale organic farming relies heavily...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON ? Anyone who uses an employee badge to enter a building may understand how a protein called ENL opens...

ANN ARBOR -- Unavoidable vibrations, such as those on airplanes, cause rigid structures to age and crack, but researchers at the University of Michigan may...

Credit: University of Washington University of Washington researchers have shown that Google's new machine learning-based system to identify toxic comments in online discussion forums can...

Credit: University of Washington Imagine you're waiting in your car and a poster for a concert from a local band catches your eye. What if...

SEATTLE -- Mar. 1, 2017 -- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center today announced the recipients of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which recognizes...

Remains of microorganisms at least 3,770 million years old have been discovered by an international team led by UCL scientists, providing direct evidence of one...