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A new study details more than 60 tools made of bone and one tool made from the tooth of a cetacean. These finds, first unearthed from Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco in 2011, are highly suggestive proxy evidence for the earliest clothing in the archaeological record and attest to the pan-African emergence of complex culture and specialized tool manufacture.

A new study suggests that temporary deviations from FDA policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic offer a look at what regulation of these tests by the agency might look like.

Doubling of global demand for aquatic foods calls for a "blue food" revolution to tackle climate change and malnutrition, new research argues.

Moffitt Cancer Center is joining a national pilot project being conducted by the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Association of Community Cancer Centers. The project is testing a research site self-assessment tool and an implicit bias training program designed to increase racial and ethnic diversity among individuals with cancer participating in clinical trials.

The ability to visualize cancerous tumors and metastatic tissue in three dimensions helps clinicians diagnose the precise type and stage of cancer. Now researchers have developed specialized hydrogels designed to rapidly remove fats from tissues, which are a factor in tissue opacification.

Researchers at McMaster University have developed a sophisticated new tool that could help provide early warning of rare and unknown viruses in the environment and identify potentially deadly bacterial pathogens which cause sepsis, among other uses.

Navin Varadarajan, University of Houston M.D. Anderson Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and his colleagues, are reporting in iScience the development of an intranasal subunit vaccine that provides durable local immunity against inhaled pathogens.

The experience of a fruit fly dying from cancer may seem worlds away from that of a human with a life-threatening tumor, yet researchers are discovering commonalities between the two that could reveal ways to improve the survival of cancer patients.

Researchers have developed a neutrophil-selective fluorescent probe, through metabolism-oriented live-cell distinction, that enables them to decipher live neutrophils, the most common white blood cell in humans.

Women with higher levels of the endocrine-disrupting chemicals per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in their system may be 20% more likely to stop breastfeeding early, according to a new study.