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Credit: NASA/Time If you took all the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in your body and strung it end-to-end, it would reach ...

Genetic risk factor for equine eye cancer identified

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the most common cancer found in equine eyes and the second most common tumor of ...

Study: Many patients with early-stage breast cancer receive costly, inappropriate testing

Credit: Bo Jungmayer/Fred Hutch News Service SEATTLE -- May 24, 2017 -- A study from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ...

High pressure key to lighter, stronger metal alloys, Stanford scientists find

High pressure could be the key to making advanced metal mixtures that are lighter, stronger and more heat-resistant than conventional ...

New hair growth mechanism discovered

Credit: Rosenblum lab/UCSF In experiments in mice, UC San Francisco researchers have discovered that regulatory T cells (Tregs; pronounced "tee-regs"), ...

Penn Medicine researchers identify brain network organization changes

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA -- As children age into adolescence and on into young adulthood, they show dramatic improvements in ...

FDA approval granted to pediatric device used to treat esophageal birth defect

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted authorization for a magnetic device used to treat pediatric esophageal atresia, a ...

Just one alcoholic drink a day increases breast cancer risk, exercise lowers risk

WASHINGTON, DC -- Drinking just one glass of wine or other alcoholic drink a day increases breast cancer risk, finds ...

New brain mapping tool produces higher resolution data during brain surgery

Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Researchers have developed a new device to map the brain during ...

Study offers guidance for targeting residual ovarian tumors

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Most women diagnosed with ovarian cancer undergo surgery to remove as many of the tumors as possible. ...

Printed, flexible and rechargeable battery can power wearable sensors

Credit: Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first printed ...

Machine learning may help in early identification of severe sepsis

Credit: ATS ATS 2017, WASHINGTON, DC -- A machine-learning algorithm has the capability to identify hospitalized patients at risk for ...

TSRI scientists find simple copper complex shuts down botulinum neurotoxin poisoning

Credit: Image courtesy CDC LA JOLLA, CA - May 24, 2017 - Botulinum neurotoxin is probably best known to Americans ...

Precise insight into the depths of cells

Credit: Stelzer Research Group, Goethe University Frankfurt FRANKFURT. Is it possible to watch at the level of single cells how ...

LSTM and partners develop molecule that may lead to first synthetic one-dose antimalarial

Researchers at LSTM, working in partnership with the University of Liverpool and other colleagues, have developed a molecule which has ...

$100M gift establishes Duchossois Family Institute to develop ‘new science of wellness’

A Chicago-area family with a deep commitment to supporting science and medicine is giving $100 million to establish The Duchossois ...

Newly published spinach genome will make more than Popeye stronger

"I'm strong to the finich, 'cause I eats me spinach!" said Popeye the Sailor Man. While you may not gulp ...

Zika virus spread undetected for many months, NIH-supported study finds

Credit: NIAID WHAT: Genetic analysis of samples collected as the Zika virus (ZIKV) spread throughout the Americas after its introduction ...

Near real-time genomic sequencing maps introduction and spread of Zika virus in US

A new study by a multi-national research team, including scientists from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ...

Zika reached Miami at least four times, Caribbean trravel likely responsible