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Female orgasm seems to be a happy afterthought of our evolutionary past when it helped stimulate ovulation, a new study of mammals shows. The role...

A handful of large studies of cancer risk factors have found that working the night shift, as nearly 15 percent of Americans do, boosts the...

Approximately one in 20 people will develop colorectal cancer in their lifetime, making it the third-most prevalent form of the disease in the U.S. In...

MIT researchers have developed a new technique for imaging brain tissue at multiple scales, allowing them to peer at molecules within cells or take a...

People with Rett Syndrome, a rare and debilitating neurodevelopmental disorder, exhibit many autism-like traits. Now researchers at MIT have identified a protein that plays an...

Credit: AP Commercial Photography A new wonder compound developed by University of Bath scientists in collaboration with King’s College London offers unprecedented protection against the...

Researchers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have recruited some new soldiers in the fight against cancer — bacteria. In...

Credit: © ScienceRELATIONSThe startup LuxAI was created following a research project at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of...

The Lomonosov Moscow State University researchers in collaboration with their German colleagues have succeeded in proving that silicon nanoparticles can be applied to diagnose and...

Across many cancer types, obese patients fare worse than leaner patients. Now a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the journal Cell Stem...

FORT COLLINS, COLO. – Melanoma is a form of skin cancer that becomes dangerous when it spreads, but is treatable in its early stages. Doctors...

BETHESDA, MD – Researchers have identified a new biological pathway involved in Alzheimer’s disease. In experiments using fruit flies, blocking the pathway reduced the death...

A Houston Methodist research team received a nearly $4 million grant to test a transcutaneously refillable implant that administers pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs to subjects at...

A Michigan State University researcher has found that a common food additive may be linked to a rise in food allergies. Cheryl Rockwell, an assistant...

DOWNERS GROVE, ILL. – July 11, 2016– A look back at more than half a million patient records has established that patients with pancreatic cysts...