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Credit: Berkeley Lab Next-generation solar cells made of super-thin films of semiconducting material hold promise because they're relatively inexpensive and flexible enough to be applied...

Junk food is a burgeoning problem for modern society: we literally have too much on our plate. Fatty and unhealthy foods are especially popular with...

Credit: University of Illinois There are approximately 1,100 known antimicrobial peptides (AMP) with diverse sequences that can permeate microbial membranes. To help discover the "blueprint"...

Credit: CSIC Communications Just as astrophysicists and physicists depend on telescopes and particle accelerators which are often shared by several countries to carry out observations...

Assembling a drug from harmless components at the target location, such as a tumor, would help reduce the side effects of treatment. In the journal...

The HLF offers all accepted young researchers the great opportunity to personally interact with the laureates of the most prestigious prizes in the fields of...

The developing world is achieving significant growth in a broad cross-section of biotechnology fields, many of them directly tied to food production, health and other...

Environmental factors such as education and leisure activities have a greater influence on the development of short-sightedness or myopia than the ability to think logically...

Do Asian Americans receive adequate preventative healthcare when it comes to being screened for type 2 diabetes? No, says a survey of 45 US states...

A comprehensive review published in the Journal of Parkinson's Disease confirms that people living with Parkinson's disease (PD) can benefit from being physically active, especially...

Although treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD) is significantly extending the lives of patients, these patients are now being admitted to hospitals at increasing rates. In...

20% of patients infected with MRSA are dying from systemic infections Antimicrobial resistance infections are projected to cause more deaths than cancer by 2050 if...

Our current understanding is that mice have either no -- or extremely limited -- neural circuitry and genes similar to those that regulate human speech....

Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory A new study has found heightened concentrations of some common substances in drinking water near sites where hydraulic fracturing has...

(Boston)--Researchers have identified a new pathway and with it a protein, BRD4, necessary for breast cancer cells to spread. The findings, which appear in the...