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Bacteriophages, or simply phages, are viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria, and they hold considerable potential for combatting antibiotic-resistance and other threats to human health. Timed with the hundred...

Feeding eggs to infants could provide them with key nutrients for better brains. A study has found that infants who were in introduced to eggs beginning at 6 months showed significantly higher blood concentrations of cho...

The first detailed snapshots of the structure of a membrane pore that enables epithelial cells to absorb calcium have now been captured by researchers. The findings could accelerate the development of drugs to correct ab...

A single treatment of a genome editing agent partially preserved hearing in mice with genetic deafness. The work could one day help scientists treat certain forms of genetic hearing loss in humans.

Inflammatory mechanisms caused by the brain's immune system drive the progression of Alzheimer's disease, according to new research. These findings, which rely on a series of laboratory experiments, provide new insights ...

Scientists have identified significant mitochondrial changes that take place in cocaine addiction, and they have been able to block them.

An inherited form of progressive deafness has been slowed in mice using CRISPR. The approach might lead to treatments for inherited deafness in people

We used to think Mars lost most of its water to space when its atmosphere blew away. Instead, the water may have been sucked up by rocks that sunk underground

Turns out, hormone levels and brain hemispheres may explain the right-leaning kiss bias.

Delivering drugs specifically to cancer cells is one approach researchers are taking to minimize treatment side effects. Stem cells, bacteria and other carriers have been tested as tiny delivery vehicles. Now a new poten...

People who consume 18 grams of protein from whole eggs or from egg whites after engaging in resistance exercise differ dramatically in how their muscles build protein, a process called protein synthesis, during the post-...

Researchers have recently shown how cells adapt to stressors -- like water loss -- by reprogramming their internal signaling networks. The studies describe previously unknown mechanisms that cells use to send signals bet...

In studying the late stages of disease in two different canine models of retinitis pigmentosa, a group of progressive and inherited blinding diseases, researchers found commonalities, specifically involving the innate im...

A new study in 'Nature Genetics' identifies a specific population of pluripotent embryonic stem cells that can reprogram to totipotent-like cells in culture. Moreover, the scientists have identified bottlenecks and drive...

Even though the total mass of particulate matter was only slightly reduced by the modernization of the vehicles, the scientists were able to prove that the Low Emission Zone Leipzig significantly contributes to the healt...

By attaching specialized molecules to the backbone of DNA, researchers have made it easier to detect rare molecules associated with early disease.

Somali Bantu women are open to family planning when methods help to space births of future children, rather than preventing new additions to their families, outlines a new report.

While most UFO sightings can be attributed to cloud formations, atmospheric phenomena, weather balloons or military planes, a few remain unexplained.

The antidepressant clomipramine may also alleviate symptoms of multiple sclerosis, specifically in its progressive form, i.e. when it occurs without relapses or remissions. As yet, drugs for this type of MS have been vir...

Scientists are using the latest imaging techniques usually used to map the brain to try and understand why some pregnant women miscarry or go into early labor.

Metal plates and pins for broken bones could be a thing of the past, with porous 3D implants as strong as the real thing used instead

Tardigrades can famously survive almost anything, including being sent into space, but the Antarctic species could face problems as a result of climate change