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Students at Licking Heights High School are partnering with Amgen to solve mysteries using research-grade technology. Through ...

New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Medical Center investigators, with co-authors across additional ...

Scientists studied factors such as viral infections, gut microbiome, and exposome that could drive cancers, as well as how to ...

New species of aquatic mite in Portuguese rivers, Torrenticola galaica, reveals the existence of hidden predators.

DNA captured on air filters and stored since the 1960s acts as an ecological time capsule, according to a recent publication in Nature ...

Canada’s chief science adviser shares the value of science inside and outside the laboratory ...

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - AZ Report Card data shows only one in five Tucson students tests proficient in science, prompting one local high school to sign up for free science labs. The national ...

A noninvasive blood test to detect genetic material shed by tumors may help clinicians identify adverse events related to treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitor drugs, investigators at the Johns ...

The microbial toxin colibactin has just the right shape to snuggle up to DNA — but its embrace is unfortunately more cancerous than cozy. Colibactin is produced by bacteria in the gut and causes ...

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