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Cannabis use causes cellular damage that increases the risk of highly cancerous tumors, according to a new paper published in ...

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Pritchards Island is deemed one of the best outdoor labs on the East Coast. It’s become a selling point as USCB develops a ...

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A new study out of Harvard Medical School is opening the door for cancer patients with a rare but dangerous heart condition ...

However, dinosaurs were only established as a group in the 1840s and no one was yet thinking about dinosaur eggs. As this ...

Over the years, chemical biology methods have made an important contribution to the study of integral membrane proteins. A ...

Vampire bats rely on amino acids from their blood diet to fuel their exercise, scientists discovered after observing the ...

Genes contain instructions for making proteins, and a central dogma of biology is that this information flows from DNA to RNA to proteins. But only two percent of the human genome actually encodes ...

Male worms can activate two conflicting memories—mating and starvation—when encountering the same odor, but only one ...

"Our group recently published a study showing that reduced endocytic activity can stimulate ... clustered apoptosis during ...