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Fire-fighting foam containing highly fluorinated chemicals is contaminating drinking water supplies around many of the nation’s military bases, airports and industrial sites.

Imagine a device that could transport drugs to any diseased site in the body with the help of a small magnet.

Adult fat-derived stem cells grown on a 3-D scaffold that mimicked a hip joint surface formed cartilage and maintained the correct shape.

Researchers discovered an unexpected way that breast cancers cells with mutant BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes acquire drug resistance and evade chemotherapies.

Scientists have identified a compound that can kill the parasites responsible for three neglected diseases: Chagas disease, leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness.

A molecular switch that flips between different versions of genes could be crucial for maintaining stem cells across all animals from simple flatworms to humans, according to a study from scientists at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona.

University of Adelaide researchers are rethinking plant breeding strategies to improve the development of new high-yielding, stress-tolerant cereal varieties.

System helps ensure databases used in medical research will not leak patients’ personal information.

The NGS based assays will be used to identify known and novel gene fusions in blood cancers, sarcomas, and solid tumors.

Collaboration aims to explore delivery of genome editing medicines to treat up to five inherited retinal diseases.