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When it comes to choosing their wintering destinations Antarctic skuas are flexible. This is shown in a study of an international research team led by the…
One major obstacle in the fight against cancer is that anticancer drugs often affect normal cells in addition to tumor cells, resulting in significant side…
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In the human world of manufacturing, many companies are now applying an on-demand, just-in-time strategy to conserve resources, reduce costs and promote…
Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston have uncovered important molecular and genetic keys to the development of soft-tissue sarcomas in skeletal…
Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nanoparticle technology, researchers from Yale have devised a way to monitor the growth of laboratory-engineered…
Take a Petri dish containing crude petroleum and it will release a strong odor distinctive of the toxins that make up the fossil fuel. Sprinkle mushroom spores…
That's among the prospects emerging from research on a new genre of “electrofuels” described in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News, the…
Here's another reason why “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”—according to new research findings published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology…
Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have identified cancer cell mitochondria as the unsuspecting powerhouse and “Achilles' heel” of tumor…
Triple negative breast tumors, which make up nearly 20 percent of breast cancers, do not respond to treatment with targeted therapies such as Herceptin®…
Structures in the midbrain that developed early in evolution can be responsible for functions in newborns which in adults are taken over by the cerebral…
The newfound scientific power to quickly “fingerprint” species via DNA is being deployed to unmask quack herbal medicines, reveal types of ancient Arctic life…
New research out of McGill University's Goodman Cancer Research Centre provides compelling new evidence that a gene known as 14-3-3ó plays a critical role in…
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