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New research adds an extra dimension to the known set of human proteins. Genes can shift their expression towards alternative protein versions (proteoforms) that rival their full length counterparts in stability. For tha...

Researchers have discovered the mechanism that drives specialized immune cells that detect and kill cancer cells in the body, offering scientists a new way to develop potential drug targets and cancer treatments.

Researchers are using 3-D printers to develop a low cost, point-of-care device that can quickly detect anemia. Anemia is a condition in which the blood does not have enough healthy red blood cells to transport oxygen to ...

Insecticide-treated nets may still help prevent malaria despite mosquitoes developing resistance, which may provide a clue to why it has been hard to demonstrate the impact of this resistance on malaria as a public healt...

Skipping elastic balls off water is much easier to do than trying to make stones "hop" across the surface of a lake, but a new study of water-impact physics isn't all fun and games.

Nine pregnant women in the U.S. have now been confirmed to have had Zika virus infections that they contracted through travel to places where the virus is spreading, U.S. health officials said today.

Turns out that Easter Island was not destroyed by war after all. Analysis of objects originally thought to be spearheads shows that they are actually general-purpose tools used by the ancient civilization that lived ther...

Abstract describes efficacy of ocrelizumab in patients with PPMS with and without T1 gadolinium-enhancing lesions at baseline in a Phase III, placebo-controlled trial.

Three-dimensional analysis, virtual surgical planning, and computer-aided design and manufacturing techniques are leading to new and refined approaches to reconstructive surgery of the skull, face, and jaw, according to ...

Researchers have determined that light reflectance spectroscopy can differentiate between malignant and benign prostate tissue with 85 percent accuracy, a finding that may lead to real-time tissue analysis during prostat...

Understanding the scale and range of neurological disease associated with Zika virus infection is an urgent priority, warn researchers.

A strong correlation has been found between new HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men in Rhode Island and their use of online hookup sites. Study authors have called for operators of hookup websites and apps to w...

Uncorrected refractive error -- nearsightedness, farsightedness, and other focusing problems correctable by prescription lenses -- is responsible for moderate to severe vision impairment in 101 million people and blindne...

Demonstrating a strategy that could form the basis for a new class of electronic devices with uniquely tunable properties, researchers at Kyushu University were able to widely vary the emission color and efficiency of or...

Life may have originated in cold conditions on an early incarnation of snowball Earth, according to new evidence from 3.5-billion-year-old rocks

Feeling hungry or full leads us to change how much we eat, but the molecular wiring of this process is not well understood. Scientists have identified a new player in this circuit called amylin, which contributes to redu...

Overweight young adults may have poorer episodic memory -- the ability to recall past events -- than their peers, suggests new research, adding to increasing evidence of a link between memory and overeating. Researchers ...

Neurosurgeons at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix are involved with testing the viability of deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat Alzheimer's disease, a disorder that currently has few treatment options. Results...

The number of men smoking tobacco in India rose by more than one-third to 108 million between 1998 and 2015, according to a new study.

Bill Gates just released a climate science equation that explains how the world can lower carbon dioxide emissions "down to zero," according to the 2016 edition the annual letter he and his wife, Melinda, published.

Microsoft has built a prototype underwater data center, with the goal of slashing its server cooling costs and placing data centers closer to population hubs.

Physicists have discovered a new elementary particle--the latest member to be added to the exotic species known as tetraquarks.