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As the spread of infectious diseases accelerates, technologies that can accurately distinguish multiple viruses in a single test are becoming increasi...
An international research team has achieved an important milestone for astrophysics at GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt: In the CRYRING@ESR storage ring, scienti...
The old maxim "location, location, location" may be as important in the social media landscape as it is in real estate. When a social media post about...
Just as the human body relies on organs such as the heart or liver for essential functions, cells depend on their own tiny organs, or organelles, to c...
When a gene is turned on in a cell, it creates a ripple effect along the DNA strand, changing the physical structure of the strand. A new study by MIT...
How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, and today we can sequenc...
Though it's largely a hereditary trait, siblings often grow to be different heights. But even if they end up topping out at the same stature, they may...
Researchers at Yale, Google, and the University of California-Santa Barbara have created a device that simulates the quantum "tunneling" behavior of p...
Fallen leaves, which are discarded every year, have been transformed into a resource that can replace waste plastics, a major nuisance in rural areas....
Cell division during the early stage of embryo development is a trade-off between speed and accuracy; the cells need to divide quickly to enable rapid...
RNA technology is regarded as one of the newest frontiers in medicine, but in fact a primordial innovator got there way before we did. The malaria par...
In August of 2020, the Grizzly Creek fire burned more than 30,000 acres around Interstate 70 in Colorado's Glenwood Canyon. The following summer, seve...
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