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Scientists are using simple peptides to deliver gene-editing tools into notoriously hard-to-access lung and airway cells with the goal of creating new treatments for people with diseases like cystic fibrosis, COPD, and a...

'PollyO' is a new hazelnut variety from the Oregon State University Breeding Program that combines a high level of resistance to eastern filbert fungal blight along with high nut yield.

A new study illustrates that the brain's cerebrospinal fluid pulses during sleep, and that these motions are closely tied with brain wave activity and blood flow. It may confirm the hypothesis that CSF flow and slow-wave...

Little is known about the molecular and cellular events that occur during early embryonic development in primate species. Now, scientists have created a method to allow primate embryos to grow in the laboratory longer th...

'Smoker's Face,' a condition where smokers look older than they are, is just one of many negative effects caused by heavy tobacco usage.

One third of all approved drugs target the same family of receptors: the G-Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs). Now, researchers have expanded the known network of peptides that activate GPCRs by 19 percent.

Bioscientists find a way to predict the sensitivity of acute myeloid leukemia to mitochondria-damaging molecules and develop cocktails to fight the cancer. The discoveries could improve personalized cancer treatment.

IT WAS HAILED by many, including The Economist, as a landmark result in quantum computing. In September a scientific paper appeared accidentally on a NASA webpage. In it a team of researchers at Google described how they...

Researchers created a mutated version of RAD51, a DNA repair protein, to better understand its critical functions at key steps in the cell replication process during times of stress. This work may help cancer biology sci...

A new study uses a special genetic sequencing technique known as low-pass genome sequencing (GS) to look for chromosomal abnormalities in couples with RM. Low-pass GS revealed additional chromosomal abnormalities in more...

Stem cells of the teeth can contribute to the regeneration of non-dental organs, namely mammary glands. According to a new study, dental epithelial stem cells from mice can generate mammary ducts and even milk-producing ...

The oldest known ortholog of the ion channel that is defective in patients with cystic fibrosis arose approximately 450 million years ago in the sea lamprey, researchers report. Many differences between lamprey and jawed...

In the nearly 20 years since the Human Genome Project was completed, experts in genetic variants increasingly have raised concerns about the overemphasis on studying people of European descent when performing large popul...

Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have found a way to better detect all collisions of stellar-mass black holes in the universe.

By landing on the roofs of busses, delivery drones could travel four-and-a-half times as far, making them more useful for transporting packages

Two new studies detail how the measles virus causes "immune amnesia."

Vampire bats form social bonds similar to friendships seen in primates.

Smoke from the Kincade wildfire drifts over Northern California in new satellite imagery.

Explosions normally require a build-up of pressure, so how can they occur in the vacuum of space when a star goes supernova? Now we have the answer

Measles makes children vulnerable to other infections and now we know why - it wipes a large part of the immune system's memory of other pathogens

Slow waves of electrical activity through your brain may help rinse away its waste products while you sleep. The process seems to go awry in Alzheimer's disease

Astronomers have spotted a black hole just 3.3 times the mass of the sun about 10,000 light years away from Earth