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Mutations in the BRCA gene correspond to a higher lifetime risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers, and many women who carry these mutations consider...

Credit: NASA Just like early explorers, NASA Twins Study investigators are venturing into new territory. Conducting human omics research on twin astronauts as part of...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Since 2015 artificially-intelligent systems surpassed human accuracy in many tasks including image recognition, voice recognition, autonomous driving and strategy games s..

Credit: Junfeng Feng Electric fields can be used to guide neural stem cells transplanted into the brain towards a specific location. The research, published July...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, July 11, 2017 -- Chemists have found potential drugs and other really useful compounds in some truly bizarre places...

Credit: Zheng-Xiong Xi and Lauren Brick Rats missing a neuroreceptor that controls the release of the neurotransmitter glutamate are less amenable to the rewarding effects...

Credit: Rachel Caspi and Anthony St. Leger Bugs in your eyes may be a good thing. Resident microbes living on the eye are essential for...

A study by researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine shows that when mice that are genetically susceptible to developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) were...

Credit: Jose Cano Researchers at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) have shown for the first time that immunoglobulin M, secreted by the...

Credit: (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano) The National Institutes of Health has awarded Tulane University more than $12 million to test a promising drug treatment against...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- In a new study published in Prosthetics and Orthotics International, Mayo Clinic researchers describe the direct medical costs of falls in adults...

Invasive ascidians -- sac-like marine invertebrate filter feeders -- are nuisance organisms that present a global threat. They contribute to biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and...

Credit: (SMU) A scientist's dream of 3-D projections like those he saw years ago in a Star Wars movie has led to new technology for...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - There are at least 250,000 species of flowering plants on earth and though their flowers can look radically different,...

Credit: Rasgon Lab, Penn State A grant from the National Science Foundation will enable a Penn State-led team of entomologists to develop and disseminate a...