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Microscopic, 3D-printed “donuts” may allow researchers to mimic swimming microorganisms synthetically.

Despite large declines since 1990 in child deaths from pneumonia and the flu, these and other lower respiratory infections remain a leading killer of children under age 5.

Nano-packaging drugs can have pitfalls. If you "overload" them, they can dissolve badly. Researchers now understand why this happens...

Viruses get a bad rap as potential cancer-causers, but at least one class of viruses that commonly live on human skin appear to play a role in protecting us against skin cancer according to new research published in Nature.

Detection dogs trained to sniff out the scat of endangered lizards, combined with genetic species identification, could represent a new, noninvasive sampling technique for lizard conservation worldwide.

A 19th-century photographic process creates dramatic black-and-white photographs with ethereal veiling effects. Since then, other photographers have used and refined mordanҫage to create unique works of art. Now, researchers have unveiled the mysterious chemistry behind the process.

New research demonstrates that when enteric glial cells are exposed to secretions from colon tumors, the glial cells convert into promoters of tumor growth.

Scientists have demonstrated that a protein expressed in immune cells contributes to the development of cardiovascular disease, which could open up a new treatment pathway.

Teams of researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Medical University of Innsbruck have developed a new therapeutic concept for the treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy.

From home to office and back. The road is the same, and yet the outbound journey is longer than the inbound journey. Why is that? The reason is the obstacles the car driver usually finds on his way to work, which are absent on the way back. Now, replace the road with DNA strands and you will have grasped the crux of the discovery just published by an international research group on the journal PNAS.