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A type of bacteria plucked from the bottom of the ocean could be put to work neutralizing large amounts of industrial carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, a group of University of Florida researchers has found.

Explore the fifth e-book in our Engineering Is... series, all about future space exploring robots.

The discovery researchers of the structural basis by which bacteria are able to capture genetic information from viruses and other foreign invaders for use in their own immunological system holds promise for studying or ...

Dermal leishmaniasis is an ulcerous skin disease caused by a tropical parasite, all forms of which can be treated with the drug miltefosine. Researchers in India studied the responses of 86 patients treated with miltefos...

An estimated 2 billion people are at risk for being bitten by Aedes mosquitoes and infected with the dengue virus (DENV). A new study introduces a candidate target for a transmission-blocking vaccine that interferes with...

For patients in intensive care, knowing how much glucose, lactate and other substances are in the blood is a question of life or death. Researchers have developed a miniaturized microfluidic device that will allow medica...

Aan internal 'sensor' that helps fight obesity by instructing cells to burn their fat stores has been identified by researchers. The finding could play a major role in the fight against obesity and metabolic diseases, in...

The bacteria that cause plague infected people during the Bronze Age, about 3,000 years earlier than thought, a new study finds.

Drinking can lead to both a very full bladder, and a dimmed awareness of how full it is, setting the stage perfectly for a bladder rupture, doctors say.

A new study of the species Alouatta caraya has revealed that the deeper the vocalization, the smaller the testicals. This also led to the conclusions that howler monkeys with low-pitch vocalization tended to live in sing...

A 20-month-old girl suffering from a rare neurodegenerative disease was diagnosed by exome sequencing and successfully treated. The case, say researchers, exemplifies the potential of precision medicine.

Muscular dystrophy, which affects approximately 250,000 people in the US, occurs when damaged muscle tissue is replaced with fibrous, fatty or bony tissue and loses function. For years, scientists have searched for a way...

Using new, highly sensitive genomic sequencing technology, an international team of researchers has found new biological evidence to help explain why the malaria vaccine candidate RTS,S/AS01 (called RTS,S) provided only ...

For the first time, researchers studied the association between gestational weight gain and long-term weight retention among a multi-ethnic urban population. Results show that mothers with excessive weight gain during pr...

"I sort of missed the science boat entirely," says Wylie Overstreet, one of the creators behind the new short film To Scale: The Solar System. "It was only a couple of years ago that I discovered science as a story...and...

Researchers from Brown University, in collaboration with colleagues from Harvard, have developed a new way to control light from phosphorescent emitters at very high speeds. The technique provides a new approach to modul...

The UK must urge visiting Chinese president Xi Jinping not to hide air pollution research, so the problem of dirty air can be tackled, says Rachael Jolley

A new article describes a successful intervention to decrease anxiety accompanying breast cancer screening, lessening this barrier to mammography.

Cesarean delivery was not associated with decrease in the at-birth fracture rates in infants with osteogenesis imperfecta, a rare bone disorder, reports a consortium of researchers.

A minimally invasive implant procedure is highly effective in reducing pain and disability for patients with sacroiliac joint dysfunction, reports a new clinical trial.

Cancer biologists have discovered that targeting the RNA-binding protein that promotes drug-resistance could lead to better cancer therapies.

New research dates plague back to the early Bronze Age, showing it had been endemic in humans across Eurasia for millennia prior to first recorded global outbreak, and that ancestral plague mutated into its bubonic, flea...