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An international team of researchers has used pioneering electron microscopy techniques to discover an important mechanism behind the reaction of metallic nanoparticles with the environment.

A study by health researchers found that the opportunity for significant progress in addressing cervical cancer across the United States is being squandered -- not because of a lack of money, but because of a void of lea...

Research shows that carbon nanotubes that detect nitric oxide can be implanted under the skin for more than a year.

Researchers have made a discovery that may lead to the curing of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (the so called mad cow disease) through photo therapy.

The key to the drug metformin is that it doesn't work to lower blood glucose by directly working on the glucose. It works on reducing harmful fat molecules in the liver, which then allows insulin to work better and lower...

A new technique successfully takes on a longstanding challenge in DNA sequencing - determining whether a particular genetic sequence comes from an individual's mother or father. The method promises to accelerate studies ...

Humans maintain a symbiotic relationship with the trillions of beneficial microbes that colonize their bodies. Inflammatory bowel disease is one of the best-studied diseases associated with alterations in the composition...

Nanotechnology may provide new strategies for regenerative medicine, including better tools to improve or restore damaged tissues.

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, together with researchers at the Polish Wroclaw University of Technology, have made a discovery that may lead to the curing of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Par...

The Kraken debate, an Earthlike alien world and sugar a drug? These are the most interesting stories we found in Science this week.