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Credit: Medical University of South Carolina A mechanism that pushes a certain gene to produce a non-coding form of RNA instead of its protein-coding alternative...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA -- A nanolaser known as the spaser can serve as a super-bright, water-soluble, biocompatible probe capable of finding metastasized cancer...

Credit: The Jackson Laboratory With new funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences totaling $2,059,618 over five years, JAX Assistant Professor Zhengqing Ouyang,...

Credit: UCLA Health Of the nearly 4 million women in the United States who have had either breast cancer or ovarian cancer, at least 1.5...

All cancer patients of reproductive age should be provided with fertility information and referrals for fertility preservation. A new Psycho-Oncology analysis of the published literature...

When to initiate screening for breast cancer, how often to screen, and how long to screen are questions that continue to spark emotional debates. A...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2017 -- Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly news magazine of the American Chemical Society (ACS), is today unveiling its annual...

Credit: Image courtesy of Vector Space Systems HRL Laboratories, LLC, has received an award as part of NASA's Space Technology Research, Development, Demonstration, and Infusion...

Credit: Stewart Macdonald Australian tiger snakes have "hit the jackpot" because prey cannot evolve resistance to their venom. While that may sound foreboding, University of...

Credit: Mukherjee et al., 2017. Whether growing in a puddle of dirty water or inside the human body, large groups of bacteria must coordinate their...

Fewer trips to the dentist may be in your future, and you have mussels to thank. Inspired by the mechanisms mussels use to adhere to...

UVALDE - Looking at leaves to peer into the future might seem the stuff of superstition, but is actually the essence of research conducted by...

Two Johns Hopkins materials science graduate students and their professors played a key role in a multi-institution research project that pinpointed how a tiny protein...

Alexandria, Va., USA - For the first time, researchers are using proteomics to examine proteins and peptides in saliva in order to accurately detect exposure...

Doctors are often deluged by signals from charts, test results, and other metrics to keep track of. It can be difficult to integrate and monitor...