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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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Giving birth at home is the most significant risk factor for neonatal deaths in major sections of Africa – a continent that continues to be plagued by the highest neonatal mortality rates in the world, indicates a new study by Michigan State University scholars.
New research by Stanford psychologists finds that people are willing to offer more money to others who display similar emotional expressions and that those expressions are even more powerful factors than race or sex.
Boston University researcher Michael Dietze uses predictive models to see how ecosystem change affects tick populations and tick-borne diseases that highly impact military bases in the United States.
Case Western Reserve University researchers have trained a deep-learning computer network to identify breast cancer in whole biopsy slides.
Drone deliveries emit less climate-warming carbon dioxide pollution than truck deliveries in some — but not all — scenarios, according to researchers at the University of Washington.