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Frequent sauna bathing can reduce the risk of dementia, according to a recent study carried out at the University of Eastern Finland. In a 20-year...

It turns out that even in the world of scientific writing, your eighth-grade teacher was right: how you write can matter as much as what...

Credit: US Army Corps of Engineers A new study used the same kind of models that scientists use to track disease to instead examine how...

Credit: Stanford University Diamond Blackfan Anemia (DBA) is a condition that is characterized by a failure of the bone marrow to produce red blood cells,...

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 17 December, 2016 - The first data on rare sarcomas in Asian patients is presented in three studies today at the ESMO Asia 2016...

Philadelphia, PA -- NRG Oncology clinical trial NRG-LU001 successfully reached its accrual goal of 168 patients. NRG-LU001: Randomized Phase II Trial of Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy with...

BETHESDA, MD. -- December 16, 2016 -- The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the premier global, non-profit molecular diagnostics professional society, today published guideline recommendation..

Credit: Dr. Ulrich Tutsch Whether water freezes to ice, iron is demagnetized or a material becomes superconducting - for physicists there is always a phase...

When data sets get too big, sometimes the only way to do anything useful with them is to extract much smaller subsets and analyze those...

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 16, 2016) - Neuroscience and artificial intelligence experts from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have taken...

In their search for new ways to treat cancer, many scientists are using a high-tech process called genome sequencing to hunt for genetic mutations that...

Credit: Brooks-Bartlett et al Biological small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is an experimental technique that provides low-resolution structural information on macromolecules. The surge of popular..

Credit: Desmond Toa Photosynthetic algae have been refining their technique for capturing light for millions of years. As a result, these algae boast powerful light-harvesting...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the patients' lungs lose their ability to repair damages...

Credit: Brian Roxworthy/NIST Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new device that measures the motion of super-tiny particles...