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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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A University of Florida study has found that bacteria in the saliva of college students who reported recent thoughts of suicide differed in significant ways from those found in students who had not experienced recent suicidal thinking.
According to a University of Kansas study of organizational teams, enhancing task demonstrability may be the key method for how an individual can convince a group to choose the correct way to solve problems.
Older people with hypothyroidism, also called underactive thyroid, may be at increased risk of developing dementia, according to a Brown University study
A team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University’s School of Medicine has taken another step toward improving development of mRNA therapies.
Idea of ice age 'species pump' in the Philippines boosted by new way of drawing evolutionary trees