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Near infrared hyperspectral imaging and chemometrics that can sort between different types of plastic and between different additions of flame retardant could improve recycling success.

A new, groundbreaking tool for visualizing neural activity has implications for understanding brain functions and disorders, according to new research by University of Alberta scientists and a team of international collaborators.

Forty to 60 percent of all people treated for substance use disorders relapse, presenting a major challenge to treatment success. New research shows that erasing memories that associate environmental cues with drug use significantly reduces drug seeking behaviors in rats, opening a potential avenue for developing more effective therapies to prevent relapse.

Swallowing a small capsule attached to a long string could be the way forward in detecting esophogeal cancer.

Researchers have discovered that the human mutation rate is significantly slower than for our closest primate relatives. The new knowledge may be important for estimates of when the common ancestor for humans and chimpanzees lived - and for conservation of large primates in the wild.

A Ludwig Cancer Research study has uncovered a cellular mechanism by which melanomas that fail to respond to checkpoint blockade may be made susceptible to such immunotherapies.

A new technique examines directly the environmental factors that control the transmission of disease to the level of a single aerosol particle and a single bacterium.

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time how two molecular strategies can safeguard CRISPR gene drive experiments in the lab.

Children with a history of prior dengue virus infection had a significantly lower risk of being symptomatic when infected by Zika virus.

Preclinical detection of prions has proven difficult, but new research suggests skin samples hold early signs of prion disease that precede neurologic symptoms.