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#27 in our top science stories of 2019.

It can be harder to enter ketosis than you might think, but there are telltale signs your keto diet is working.

Researchers have now achieved the highest reported rates of inserting genes into human cells with the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system, a necessary step for harnessing CRISPR for clinical gene-therapy applications. By che...

Casting lines into human cells to snag proteins, a team of researchers has solved a 20-year-old mystery of cell biology.

A mother's obesity in pregnancy can affect her child's development years down the road, according to researchers who found lagging motor skills in preschoolers and lower IQ in middle childhood for boys whose mothers were...

Artificial intelligence can detect one of the most common forms of blood cancer - acute myeloid leukemia -- with high reliability. Researchers at the DZNE and the University of Bonn have now shown this in a proof-of-conc...

Researchers developed a liquid electret material capable of semi-permanently retaining static electricity. They subsequently combined this material with soft electrodes to create the first bendable, stretchable vibration...

At Sensors Expo 2019, Eduardo Montalvo, an application engineer from Coto Technology, explains a RedRock demo board with the different output responses provided by his company's sensors. RedRock's tunneling magnetoresist...

(Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) A collaboration led by scientists at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan, has discovered that daily energy balance of Asian black bears exhibited ...

(University of California - San Diego) Spontaneous mutations in male sperm are linked to development of autism spectrum disorder. Researchers have created a way to measure mutations and estimate risk of ASD in future chi...

(PLOS) A recent study showed that being overweight or obese was a risk factor for cardiotoxicity in chemotherapy-treated patients with breast cancer, but it did not take into account related cardiac risk factors or other...

(Cornell University) People with restricted diets -- due to allergies, health issues or religious or cultural norms -- are more likely to feel lonely when they can't share in what others are eating, new Cornell Universit...

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany, have developed new methods to reveal the thre...

(American Federation for Aging Research) This year, ten, one-year, $60,000 Fellowships have been awarded to support postdoctoral fellows who study basic research mechanisms of aging and/or translational findings that hav...

(University of Groningen) To disarm toxic substances, many organisms -- including humans -- possess enzymes called flavin-containing monooxygenases (FMOs). However, the protein is too unstable to study its structure in d...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) There appears to be an unhealthy synergy between mental illness and prostate cancer, and researchers are working to dissect the relationship by first assembling the larg...

(Bentham Science Publishers) The new book series presents interesting reviews about infectious diseases responsible for epidemics around the world.

(American Federation for Aging Research) The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Research Grant for Junior Faculty provides an early career investigator with up to $100,000 for one- to two-years to support res...

(American Academy of Neurology) For boxers and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters, is there a safe level of exposure to head trauma? A new study shows different effects in the brain for younger, current fighters compared ...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) A mother's obesity in pregnancy can affect her child's development years down the road, according to researchers who found lagging motor skills in preschoolers and ...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) A Michigan Medicine team was able to demonstrate, using rats, that the EEG doesn't always track with being awake. Their study raises questions about what it means to be consci...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a tenacious subset of immune macrophages that thwart treatment of glioblastoma with anti...