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While the latter half of the 20th century showed a widening gap between the more and less educated with respect to marriage and fertility, this...

La Jolla, Calif., May 25, 2016 — Research led by scientists at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) has identified a new regulator...

ITHACA, N.Y. – 3-D printing has become a powerful tool for engineers and designers, allowing them to do "rapid prototyping" by creating a physical copy...

Spinal cord injuries are mostly caused by trauma, often incurred in road traffic or sporting incidents, often with devastating and irreversible consequences, and unfortunately having...

BINGHAMTON, NY – The power grid is aging, overburdened and seeing more faults than ever, according to many. Any of those breaks could easily lead...

DURHAM, N.C. — A long line of research links poverty and depression. Now, a study by Duke University scientists shows how biology might underlie the...

A brand new outdoor laboratory has been recently launched at UNIST and this is expected to convert human waste into renewable energy sources, and possible...

(Brussels, 31 May, 2016) A report investigating the current state of digestive health in children has revealed alarming trends in disease incidence and inequalities in...

Just as members of an orchestra need a conductor to stay on tempo, neurons in the brain need well-timed waves of activity to organize memories...

Oncologists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have successfully treated a patient with metastatic melanoma by combining two different types of immunotherapy. Cassian Yee...

Credit: Image courtesy of Yei Hwan Jung and Juhwan Lee/University of Wisconsin-Madison MADISON, Wis. — The consumer marketplace is flooded with a lively assortment of...

One of Zika's mysteries is how the virus passes from an infected mother, through the placenta, to a developing fetus. The route may not be...

Credit: Lena Palaniyappan A team of scientists from across the globe have shown that the brains of patients with schizophrenia have the capacity to reorganize...

A U of T Engineering team has designed a simpler way to keep therapeutic proteins where they are needed for long periods of time. The...

University of California, Berkeley scientists have developed a quicker and more efficient method to alter the genes of mice with CRISPR-Cas9, simplifying a procedure growing...