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Bioprinting is a growing field in medicine that has scientists well on their way to replicating human organs. But engineering true to life vascular networks has always been a challenge. Until now.

A research team has figured out how to disable a part of the SARS virus responsible for hiding it from the immune system -- a critical step in developing a vaccine against the deadly disease. The findings also have poten...

Treatment for pneumonia that included azithromycin compared with other antibiotics was associated with a significantly lower risk of death and a slightly increased risk of heart attack, according to a study that included...

A community-based program helped minorities significantly lower their blood pressure, researchers report after evaluating the American Heart Association's Check. Change. Control. program in 18 urban, predominately Africa...

Alaska officials have raised the alert level on Monday for Pavlof Volcano from "Watch" to "Warning," indicating that a low-level eruption of one of the state's most active volcanoes may be intensifying.

After 50 years of trying, physicists have tuned into the radio waves given off by fireballs streaking through Earth's atmosphere

About 12 percent of older breast cancer patients developed heart failure within three years, often as a result of the cancer drugs and treatments. Despite this, only a third of older breast cancer patients saw a cardiolo...

Astronomers have discovered a new type of planet, the "mega-Earth." Kepler-10c is located around 560 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Draco, and is 17 times the mass and double the size of our planet. As for ...

Scientists may one day be able to use electronic copies of human brains to explore the nature of the mind. But is it ethical to make that e-mind suffer and die if one can resurrect it at will and delete any memory of the...

Antibiotics can reduce the diversity of bacteria in the gut, which has been linked to higher risk of colorectal cancer.

Alexander Shulgin, who synthesized and documented the effects of hundreds of psychoactive substances, has passed away at age 88.

An antimicrobial substance in pine tree bark may have a use for treating skin cancer.

Individuals who are hospitalized for the skin conditions of Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis appear to have a high risk of recurrence, according to a study. Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic...

Scientists have designed a search engine that identifies genes that are functionally linked. The discovery may lead to ways to treat diseases that have a genetic component, such as cancer or Alzheimer's.

Studying mice, researchers have found a way to prevent nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, the most common cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. Blocking a path that delivers dietary fructose to the liver prevented mic...

A test that counts the number of locations in tumor specimens where tumor cells may invade blood vessels predicted the risk of distant spread, or metastasis, for the most common type of breast cancer. To measure the test...

Obama aims to slash CO2 pollution from the electric power sector by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

The U.S. military's "skin biosensor" project aims to keep track of what is flowing in the sweat of soldiers, in order to monitor their health and improve their performance.

In honor of this month's 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, pilots from Britain's Royal Air Force recreated the first images taken of the fateful landings on the beaches of Normandy by their counterparts during Worl...

A new biochip sensor that uses dye chemistry and plasmonic interferometry to selectively measure concentrations of glucose in a complex solution similar to human saliva. The advance is an important step toward a device t...

Recent advances in both medications and approaches to care have significantly reduced the impact acne once had on both skin and self-esteem. Acne doesn't discriminate by gender or race, and while it's most common in adol...

Researchers from Brown University have developed a new biochip sensor that can selectively measure concentrations of glucose in a complex solution similar to human saliva. The advance is an important step toward a device...