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As urban and suburban development creeps further into wild lands, an increase in the number of interactions between people and apex predators, like mountain lions and grey wolves, is inevitable. How do you think we can s...

A Chinese herbal regimen called TSY-1 (Tianshengyuan-1) TSY-1 increased Telomerase activity in normal blood cells but decreased it in cancer cells, research has demonstrated. Telomerase is an enzyme responsible for the p...

For the first time, a woman has had a child using tissue removed and frozen while she was still a child - a technique that could young people with cancer

A swirling mass of cold air usually stays parked at the poles, but sometimes that system can weaken, sending an Arctic blast southward into the U.S.

Scientists have rolled back time for live mice through systemic cellular reprogramming, according to a new study. In mice carrying a mutation leading to premature aging, reprogramming of chemical marks in the genome, kno...

The Atacama Desert, the world's driest place outside of the poles, may have once harbored wetlands and lakes that allowed America's first settlers to colonize the continent.

A new discovery offers new insight into regulation of water and food intake. Neuroscientists recorded neuronal activity in real-time in awake mice when presented with food or water, and identified anticipatory changes in...

For the first time, a woman has had a child using tissue removed and frozen while she was still a child - a technique that could help young people with cancer

Newborns with congenital cytomegalovirus -- a common virus in the herpes family -- may have an increased risk of developing acute lymphocytic leukemia, according to new research. The study suggests the risk is even great...

Twinning is a crystal-growth disorder in which the specimen is composed of distinct domains whose orientations differ but are related in a particular, well-defined way. Twinning, which is a known problem in protein cryst...

A research group has succeeded in correcting the motor symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease in mice. These results are promising in terms of treatment, since Parkinson's disease is practically always diagnosed on...

One in every six colorectal cancer patients (16 percent) diagnosed under age 50 has at least one inherited genetic mutation that increases his or her cancer risk and many of these mutations could go undetected with the c...

A new study of three genes associated with the development of prostate cancer found that men with inherited mutations in these genes are more likely to develop aggressive forms of the disease and die from prostate cancer...

Abortions don't harm women's mental health, but being denied access to one might, a new study finds.

Researchers have identified a biomarker enzyme associated with aggressive glioma brain tumors, and have revealed the regulatory mechanism for that enzyme. In a new study, they demonstrate potent efficacy, using a mouse m...

High-intensity interval training (HIT) is more enjoyable than moderate exercise, a team of kinesiologists has found. It's the first study to examine changes in enjoyment for HIT workouts versus moderate continuous traini...

(Nagoya University) Researchers centered at Nagoya University found that antiaromatic planar norcorrole molecules can form close face-to-face interactions to give structures with increased aromaticity. This behavior is q...

Using hundreds of viral genome sequences, scientists have shown that two major groups of rabies virus have unique evolutionary tendencies.

To help inspire new ways of stopping the spread of schistosomiasis, researchers have studied the dispersal patterns of the snails that carry the infection. Irrigation channels and other land use patterns, they found, aff...

(Lomonosov Moscow State University) Researchers from the Laboratory for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, in cooperation with colleagues from the University of Washington, have ...

The same signal that drives aggressive growth in a deadly cancer cell type also triggers coping mechanisms that make it 'notoriously' hard to kill.

From laptops to cellphones, today's technology advances through the ever-increasing speed at which electric charges are directed through circuits. Similarly, speeding up control over quantum states in atomic and nanoscal...