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Scientists found that they could re-engineer adipocytes – fat cells that provide fatty acids with the energy needed for tumors to grow and spread – to reverse their role in tumor development and deliver cancer-fighting drugs to the tumor vicinity.

Scientists have shown for the first time that some diabetes drugs have a toxic effect on mitochondria, leading to heart dysfunction.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in collaboration with the Broad Institute of Harvard, have devised a novel approach to rapidly image the synaptic proteins at high resolution, using a multiplexed imaging approach.

Humans have never before lived with the high carbon dioxide atmospheric conditions that have become the norm on Earth in the last 60 years, according to a new study.

Many people are trying to reduce their plastic use, but some tea manufacturers are moving in the opposite direction: replacing traditional paper teabags with plastic ones which have been shown to shed particles into your brew.

An international research team has shown that today's Iranian population is composed of partially highly heterogeneous ethnic groups, exhibiting a high degree of genetic variation.

Scientists have invented a new way to monitor chemotherapy concentrations, which is more effective in keeping patients’ treatments within the crucial therapeutic window.

A new study has concluded that epileptic seizures can probably not be predicted by changes in brain wave patterns that were previously assumed to be characteristic precursors.

Georgia Tech researchers have developed a test that detects deadly zinc deficiencies in a single drop of blood. The test could be made compact enough so that many fit in an aid worker’s pocket.

Never-ending campaigns, social media, 24-hour news cycles. Politics are impossible to escape, even for the casual observer. But are policy fights and polarization more than a headache in the collective consciousness? New research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggests yes -- that we're making ourselves sick over politics.