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Two new studies show that the number of immune cells in the bloodstream of cancer patients can be increased by short bouts of light or moderate exercise.

A team of engineers has developed a stretchable ultrasonic array capable of serial, non-invasive, three-dimensional imaging of tissues as deep as four centimeters below the surface of human skin, at a spatial resolution of 0.5 millimeters.

Giving new college students opportunities to reflect on the ways science, technology, engineering, and math can affect their lives makes them more likely to remain in degree programs in STEM fields.

Cancer cells that initiate metastasis, or the spread of the disease from its primary location, are different from cancer cells that stay in the original tumor.

By connecting small self-propelling toys in a chain, researchers have found the key to studying the movement of microscopic organisms and molecular motors inside our cells.

Modeling the pharmacological properties of the African psychedelic plant medicine ibogaine, researchers have developed two novel drug candidates for treating addiction and depression. The research is published in Cell.

Researchers are trying to solve one of those fundamental puzzles: how a dividing stem cell portions out its membrane during the process of division.

While adding a little water is popularly thought to “open up” the flavor of whisky, a new study indicates there’s a point at which it becomes too much: about 20%.

According to research, a molecule that causes cancer cells to multiply and spread is activated in distinct parts of the tumor, including at the border and areas of low oxygen supply.

Scientists analyzed the chemical fingerprint of the ocean and microbes retrieved from sediments and water at the bottom of a subglacial lake called Mercer Lake to describe where the feisty microbes get carbon and move it through this fiercely desolate system.