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The organized way your DNA gets folded up in your cells’ nuclei; electrical currents flowing forever even in non-superconducting metals; personalized treatments for cancer; and more.
NASA is crashing a rocket into the moon to search for water ice. has live coverage and a Facebook Q and A.
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For the first time, researchers have produced experimental evidence that classical chaos occurs in the quantum world.
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A technique being tested in stem cell transplants from imperfectly matched donors has revealed an unforeseen response that can suppress graft-versus-host disease. The previously unrecognized specificity of regulatory T cells helps explain why the patients treated with the new strategy — known as “co-stimulatory blockade” — have shown a low level of GVHD. The findings [...]
You might watch your daily calorie intake or glance over nutritional information on food packages, but do you do the same for your pet? Veterinarians say there are several guidelines to follow when feeding your pet to ensure that it maintains good health.
Clinical research has found that African Americans with a common form of lung cancer have a lower frequency of drug-sensitizing genetic mutations, which may impact response to new cancer-fighting drugs. A new study has found that ethnicity plays a significant role in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) genetics and more personalized treatments may be beneficial [...]
The role of the forests is assumed to increase in the future, as an important buffer of climate change and increasing carbon dioxide concentrations. So-called Earth system models, computer systems making predictions for the globe, estimate that this effect can be very large. However, new research results, based on measurements at hundreds of European forests, [...]
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Medical tourism in Latin America needs to be regulated to protect consumers, according to researchers. A new study argues that Argentinean fertility clinics are increasingly marketing themselves to international health care consumers: these clinics offer all-inclusive packages with fixed prices that feature airfare, accommodations, transfers, language interpreters and, of course, fertility treatments.
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The intense exchanges that human mothers share with their newborn infants may have some pretty deep roots, suggests a study of rhesus macaques.
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