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Like whites, Hispanic and black people who have had mononucleosis, commonly known as mono, which is caused by Epstein-Barr virus, may have an increased risk of multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a new study.

New research shows negligible risk from consumption of meat from migratory marine predators following Fukushima nuclear disaster.

A guardian gene that protects against type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases exerts its pancreas-shielding effects by altering the gut microbiota. Experiments in mice born with the protective gene show that exposu...

The first robots in your home probably won't look like Terminator, instead they'll be little odd-job loving plug-and-play suckers like these ones

Galactic winds once thought to slow star formation may be driving the creation of new stars in distant galaxies, challenging long held believes about galaxy evolution

A team of researchers is the first to successfully bioengineer a functional lung with perfusable and healthy vasculature in an ex vivo rodent lung. Their new approach allows the removal of the pulmonary epithelium while ...

Scientists developed a method to genetically engineer gut bacteria to produce molecules that have the potential to treat certain disorders by altering human metabolism.

For the first time, stem cells from adults rather than embryos have relieved Parkinson's symptoms in monkeys. A trial is now being prepared for people

Six centuries ago, Korean astronomers recorded a bright spot in the night sky. A 25-year hunt for that star has settled a debate about how classical novae behave

A sleek, subterranean X-ray laser to be unveiled Friday in Germany, by far the most powerful in the world, has scientists in a dozen fields jostling to train its mighty beam on their projects.

Artificial intelligences make many mistakes as they learn, which could be dangerous in driving or healthcare. Now human teachers could help them avoid errors

A research team has used a modified version of the gene-editing technique CRISPR to find enhancers -- not by editing them but by prompting them into action.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is offering the global scientific community no-cost access to an unprecedented collection of pediatric solid tumor samples and data to fuel research and move treatment forward.

Motorized molecules that target diseased cells may deliver drugs to or kill the cells by drilling into the cell membranes. Scientists have demonstrated them on cancer and other cells.

Cancer cells obtained from a blood test may be able to predict how early-stage lung cancer patients will fare, a team of researchers has shown.

Artificial intelligence analyzes gravitational lenses 10 million times faster. Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have for the first time shown that n...

Breakthrough Listen detected more radio pulses from the famous repeating source FRB 121102. They're higher frequency than previous ones but we still don't know what causes them

Total has had its drilling licence turned down, with Brazil's environment agency saying the French oil giant has failed to address the environmental risk of oil spills

Often spending their days hunched over phones, tablets or computers and their free time at spin class or playing sports, millennials are the next generation poised to experience chronic pain. Even at their young age, mil...

Federal and state government can alter or hinder state and local activity through a legal mechanism called preemption -- when a higher level of government blocks the action of a lower level of government. A new study eva...

You may be daydreaming, but your brain is hard at work. When we rest, our brains' hippocampi regions replay new memories, filing them away for long-term storage

A group of stars orbits so close to the Milky Way's black hole that they could have never formed there. But they're too young to have been born further away