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A simple adjustment to a powerful gene-editing tool may be able to improve its specificity. Investigators have found that adjusting the length of the the guide RNA component of the synthetic enzymes called CRISPR-Cas RNA...

Researchers have discovered that breast stem cells and their "daughters" have a much longer lifespan than previously thought, and are active in puberty and throughout life.

Researchers have discovered the process by which high-density lipoprotein -- the so-called "good cholesterol" -- becomes dysfunctional, loses its cardio-protective properties, and instead promotes inflammation and athero...

A new study suggests that working age adults with diabetes are at an increased risk of influenza compared with people without diabetes, affirming the need to target people with diabetes for influenza vaccination.

Infants born prematurely are at elevated risk for cognitive, motor, and behavioral deficits -- the severity of which was, until recently, almost impossible to accurately predict in the neonatal period with conventional b...

An early-phase clinical trial of an experimental vaccine that targets cancer stem cells in patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and aggressive malignant brain tumor, has been launched.

Love, sweet love, sloth potty breaks and star-shaped cataracts are just a few of the cool Science stories we found this week.

An ancient hunter-gatherer from Spain had blue eyes and dark skin, suggesting that light skin evolved much later in Europe than previously thought.

An ancient hunter-gatherer from Spain had blue eyes and dark skin, suggesting that light skin evolved much later in Europe than previously thought.

Henry Molaison's brain changed our understanding of memory, now a 3D reconstruction of it is revealing new insights     

New measurements date Arizona's vast canyon to 6 million years ago, not 70 million years as has been suggested     

A 7000-year-old hunter-gatherer found in a Spanish cave has a genome surprisingly similar to modern humans, with blue eyes and a host of immunity genes     

In a recent Oxford trial reported in The Lancet, doctors restored sight to patients with choroideremia, a rare inherited cause of blindness that affects about 1 in 50,000 people, with a surgery that involved temporarily ...

A list of the 50 most common interview questions for 2014 will give you a head start on your next job interview.

Workers who monitored their smartphones for business purposes after 9 p.m. were more tired and less engaged the following day on the job.

(Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard) A new type of electrical generator uses bacterial spores to harness the untapped power of evaporating water, according to research conducted at the Wyss I...