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A group of molecules with the potential to treat familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic disease that causes high cholesterol levels, has been identified in a new study.

A special combination of two extraordinary nanomaterials successfully results in a new hybrid product capable of turning light into electricity, and vice-versa, faster than conventional materials.

Researchers have developed a new method to accurately predict which patients with metastatic colorectal cancer will have a favorable treatment outcome following surgical removal of liver metastases.

The environmental impacts of vegans are around a third of those with high-meat diets, a new study has found. The researchers also saw a 30% difference between high- and low-meat diets for most of the measures of environmental harm.

A new study links a high body mass index (BMI) to alterations in the structure and environment of ovarian cancer.

A new theory has been proposed that suggests that how useful a memory may be for future situations determines where it is stored in the brain.

A single human cell teems with as many 100,000 different proteins. Actin is one of the most abundant and essential of them all. This protein forms into filaments that help make up the skeleton of cells, giving them shape.

Using the pangolin as a model, researchers have developed a flexible medical robot made of soft and hard components that, just like the animal, can become a sphere in the blink of an eye. It can also emit heat when needed.

A single-cell atlas of the human kidney has been created that maps healthy and diseased cell states. The researchers hope it can be used as a foundation to better understand the progression of kidney disease.

A new study shows how a zygote, hits "reset" so that the newly formed embryo can develop according to its own genetic program.