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(American Roentgen Ray Society) The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) is pleased to announce two 2021 ARRS Scholarships, provided by ARRS' The Roentgen Fund®, have been awarded to Tatiana Kelil, MD of the University ...

(University of Freiburg) Researchers decode the structure of the molecular complex that carries detoxifying enzymes in cells to the right place

Thanks to science, the end of the pandemic is finally in sight.

(Université de Genève) The onset of epileptic seizures is unpredictable. Neuroscientists from the University of Geneva, the University Hospital of Bern and the University of California in San Francisco, have succeeded ...

(Osaka City University) A stress response of mitochondria, the part of our cells that produce energy to power bodily functions, is important to a longer life. A team of scientists from Osaka City University, Japan, searc...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Clinical trials have investigated pairing PARP inhibitor therapy with immunotherapy. Researchers are already looking ahead for ways to get even more benefit from PARP inhibitors plus checkp...

(Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology) Neuroscientists have made major advances in their quest to study the brain; however, there are no tools to precisely measure the brain's principal o...

(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) The first cell atlas of an important life stage of Schistosoma mansoni, a parasitic worm that poses a risk to hundreds of millions of people each year, has been developed by researchers ...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) In a recent survey, people who said social distancing and COVID-safety guidelines violated their personal freedoms responded more positively to these ideas when they felt a lo...

(Society for Risk Analysis) Over the course of its virtual Annual Meeting, the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) awarded six prestigious scholarly and service awards and named seven new Fellows. These awards recognize 14 i...

(University of Ottawa) In a paper published today in the prestigious journal Science, a collaboration between University of Ottawa and Humbolt University of Berlin reveals a critical role for a brain area called the peri...

(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) Each year, IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) highlights the best lung cancer research at the Presidential Symposium. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the W...

(Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) When a stressed liver cell starts communicating with its neighbors, it can send stress signals to neighboring cells, causing significant problems that can lead to fatty liver d...

(American Gastroenterological Association) Media are invited to register for the first virtual Crohn's & Colitis Congress, taking place Jan. 21-24, 2021, and learn about the latest trends and research in inflammatory bow...

(University of Helsinki) In urban environments, allergic diseases are more common among dogs and their owners compared to those living in rural areas. Simultaneous allergic traits appear to be associated with the microbe...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) Preschoolers living in impoverished communities who have access to a nurturing home environment have significantly higher intelligence quotient (IQ) scores in adolescence compa...

(Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University) Scientists in Japan's brain science project have used machine intelligence to improve the accuracy and reliability of a powerful brain-mapping tech...

(Georgia State University) Humans are generally reluctant to give up on something they've already committed time and effort to. It's called the "sunk costs" phenomenon, where the more resources we sink into an endeavor, ...

(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers have developed a novel type of nanoparticle that efficiently and selectively kills cancer cells, thus opening up new ...

(German Center for Infection Research) Cologne University Hospital, University of Marburg, the German Center for Infection Research and Boehringer Ingelheim collaborate on potential COVID-19 therapy and prevention

(University of Exeter) Scientists at the University of Exeter have identified a way to "rescue" cells that have genetically mutated, paving the way to a possible new treatment for rare terminal childhood illness such as ...

(Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS)) Systemic risks like climate change, cybersecurity and pandemics are characterised by high complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, and effects beyond the system in w...