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Credit: Stefan Pusch/DKFZ Many malignancies develop as a result of genetic alterations in individual cells. These gene mutations often cause altered proteins that give new,...

Credit: Microsoft Research WASHINGTON -- If you've ever tried to take a picture in a dark restaurant, you know that it is difficult to get...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The combination of pembrolizumab and the checkpoint inhibitor known as epacadostat is leading to promising responses and is generally well...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A new advance on a method developed by MIT researchers could enable continuous, high-precision monitoring of materials exposed to a high-radiation environment....

Credit: Gail M. Ashley, Rutgers University About 1 to 2 million years ago, early humans in East Africa periodically faced very dry conditions, with little...

Credit: On the left: Mats Westerbom. On the right: Alf Norkko. A research group at the University of Helsinki discovered the fastest event of speciation...

The hormone jasmonic acid plays a major role in the plant immune system and in regulating growth. Scientists have already learned much about how jasmonic...

We all know that washing our hands can keep us from spreading germs and getting sick. But a new Rutgers-New Brunswick study found that cool...

Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - We encounter phase transitions in our everyday lives when we witness water freezing or boiling. Similarly, quantum systems at...

Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics/Swiss Nanoscience Institute Scientists have developed a new method of characterizing graphene's properties without applying disruptive electri..

Credit: Clemson Unviersity The rebels and the empire used laser cannons to shoot it out on the big screen in "Star Wars," but the weapons...

WASHINGTON (May 30, 2017) -- One of the biggest challenges facing cancer genomics researchers is the lack normalized data on cancer genes. Multitudes of genomics...

Autonomous targeting and release of drugs at their site of action are desired features of nanomedical systems. Now, a team of Dutch scientists has designed...

Credit: RIA Novosti (Russian news agency) A radiopharmaceutical for advanced identification of cancer, labeled with the technetium-99 isotope, is ready for the preclinical-phase trial. Scientists...

For almost a decade, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been enabling scientists to develop a greater understanding of - and, in some cases, rewrite...