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New research has found that a combination of radiation and immunotherapy not only cures pancreatic cancer in mice, but also creates an "immune memory".

A team of scientists has developed a new approach that enables researchers to more efficiently identify the genes that control plant traits. This method will enable plant breeders and scientists to develop more affordable, desirable, and sustainable plant varieties.

Scientists working in the areas of health behavior, neuroscience, pain management and addiction are proposing novel treatment strategies that could help prevent abuse of opioids and other substances.

A stem cell transplant reversed a debilitating neurological disease that causes half of the patients to go blind and lose the ability to walk five years after diagnosis. Most of the patients stayed better five years after the transplant and were able to avoid drug treatment that cost up to $500,000 yearly, reports a new study.

Children should be introduced to fish early in life because those who consume fish early on show significantly reduced occurrences of eczema, wheezing and asthma at age six.

In a new study, researchers have found that changes in the function of mitochondrial DNA can accelerate the aging process in ways that are different than previously thought.

New findings from an analysis of 266 deceased former amateur and professional football players are the first to quantify the strength of the link between playing tackle football and developing CTE.

X-ray crystallography – the standard method for determining the structure of proteins – could be providing researchers with inaccurate information about a critical set of proteins found in cell membranes. This finding could impact drug design success, as drug developers could be working with imprecise drug target information.

Polluting emissions from Chinese thermal power plants declined significantly between 2014 and 2017, meaning China is on track to reach its 2020 emissions goals.

In the largest and most diverse genetic study of PTSD to date, scientists from University of California San Diego School of Medicine and more than 130 additional institutions participating in the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium have found that PTSD has a strong genetic component similar to other psychiatric disorders.