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As the master code of life, DNA can do a lot of things. Inheritance. Gene therapy. Wipe out an entire species. Solve logic problems. Recognize your sloppy handwriting. Wait, What? In a brilliant study published in Nature...

These exhausted flyers are running out of time.

Scientists have demonstrated that a blood test can predict how patients with advanced prostate cancer will respond to specific treatments, leading to improved survival.

Everyone gets hiccups, but some people suffer intractable hiccups that last longer than a month. Intractable hiccups can occur more often than we realize and present to multiple medical disciplines, Loyola Medicine neuro...

A new study comparing healthy and diseased mouse intestinal tracts shows unexpected changes in viral communities.

In a new study researchers have scrutinized the whole genome sequences of 18 induced pluripotent stem cell lines derived from skin cells that they had reprogrammed to identify and characterize somatic mutations.

Fitness trackers can be valuable tools for assessing the quality of life and daily functioning of cancer patients during treatment, a new study has found. The trackers, also known as wearable activity monitors, include c...

A phenomenon by which genes clone themselves and paste their copies into other parts of DNA is drawing the attention of Alzheimer's disease researchers. Scientists discovered an uptick in this activity in fruit fly model...

Zika virus (ZIKV) may be sexually transmissible for a shorter period than previously estimated, according to a new systematic review.

More than one in 10 children hospitalized with sepsis die, but when a series of clinical treatments and tests is completed within an hour of its detection the odds of death shrink 40 percent, according to the largest eve...

Reduced levels of plasmalogens are associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's Disease, according to new research.

Patients who sought care for a sprained ankle in states that were found to be 'high prescribers' of opioids were approximately three times more likely to receive a prescription for the drugs than those treated in 'low-pr...

From flying broomsticks to floating cities and container-less storage, levitation has a tendency to capture the imagination. Among the impractical and impossible ideas, there are some good ones that have already taken ho...

At our festival of science this September, Nick Davis will be exploring how we can make our brains work better - and whether we know what we're getting ourselves into

A new study reports gaining expertise with symbolic math refines the primal system of quantity representation in the brain, not the other way around.

Researchers discover differences in the brain's emotional networks between those who do not meditate, novice meditators and those who have practiced meditation for a long time.

A new joint study identifies the brain mechanism that accounts for the discrepancy between low decoding skills and high reading comprehension in some children with dyslexia.

Archaeologists digging in a 400-year-old church in Jamestown, Virginia, have found a headless body that might be that of Sir George Yeardley, one of the first politicians -- and slave owners -- in the American colonies.

Parrondo's paradox takes losing odds and turns them into a win.

Humans need much more information to study a problem backwards in time than forwards, but a quantum computer can ignore the flow of time all together

In one of the largest studies of its kind, researchers analyzed chikungunya and dengue outbreak data from 76 countries over a period of 50 years, focusing on regions across the Indian Ocean. The analysis of 1959-2009 dat...

Researchers used an atom-level simulation to define one mechanism by which the flu virus infects cells. The team said its work could provide a path toward a universal vaccine for viruses.