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(University of Pittsburgh) Teenage boys who witness their peers abusing women and girls are much more likely to bully and fight with others, as well as behave abusively toward their dates, compared to teenage boys who do...

(Washington University School of Medicine) Cancer patients who receive high-tech proton therapy experience similar cure rates and fewer serious side effects compared with those who undergo traditional X-ray radiation the...

(Rockefeller University Press) Researchers at the University of Toronto have identified a key protein that supports the growth of many colorectal cancers. The study, which will be published Dec. 27 in the Journal of Cell...

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Identical twins with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience large differences in symptom severity even though they share the ...

(Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters) A new study published in Immunity now provides important new information. WANG Hongyan's team from the Center for Excellence in Molecular and Cellular Science, Institute of Bioc...

(American Chemical Society) There are tens of thousands of mushroom species out there, and some of them could kill you. Today we're going to test how well you can separate the perfectly safe from the perilously poisonous...

(National Institute for Health and Welfare) Children born prematurely, i.e. before week 37, are more likely to be placed outside the home as a supportive child welfare measure than their full-term counterparts, according...

(Linköping University) Sperm are influenced by diet, and the effects arise rapidly. This is the conclusion of a study by researchers at Linköping University, in which healthy young men were fed a diet rich in sugar. Th...