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A study by researchers at Duke University School of Medicine found that supplying healthy mitochrondra to damaged nerve cells can signifantly help millions managing pain from diabetic neuropathy and chemotherapy.
Researchers from the USF College of Marine Science are studying soft tissue samples from barnacles, oysters, and fish to better understand the state of contamination and its origins in Tampa Bay, Florida's largest estuary.
The advancement lays the groundwork for creating a library of sugar-recognizing proteins that may help detect and treat diverse illnesses.
The olfactory senses of ants help them hunt, detect outsiders, and know their role within a colony. In a new study, researchers have discovered how ants can switch one gene on out of hundreds to ensure their survival.
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Gut bacteria are increasingly implicated in non-gut-related autoimmune diseases. Yale researchers have begun to understand how they’re connected.
Stony Brook University researchers are working to understand not just screen time use by adolescents but the duration and content of that use, particularly during a typical school day
UCSC researchers find that long-read sequencing has the potential to improve the rate of diagnosis of genetic disease while reducing the time to diagnosis from years to days — in a single test and at a much lower cost.
University at Buffalo study shows that a strain of bacteria taken from contaminated soil breaks apart the strong carbon-fluorine bonds of PFAS, as well as some of the shorter-chain PFAS left behind.
University of Florida researchers recently concluded the largest study on audio deepfakes to date, challenging 1,200 humans to identify real audio messages from digital fakes.