Chinese teenagers have a rate of diabetes nearly four times greater than their counterparts in…
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Bioengineers discover single cancer cell can produce up to five daughter cells
Conventional biology expects the process of mammalian cell division, mitosis, to occur by the equal…
Life’s molecules could lie within reach of Mars Curiosity rover
Stick a shovel in the ground and scoop. That’s about how deep scientists need to…
Natural climate shifts drove coral reefs to a total ecosystem collapse lasting 2,500 years
A new article shows how natural climatic shifts stopped reef growth in the eastern Pacific…
Like it or not, Facebook and friends can be used to influence health behavior
Whether the goal is to curb smoking at a local school or to reduce the…
Novel nanotherapeutic delivers clot-busting drugs directly to obstructed blood vessels
Researchers have developed a novel biomimetic strategy that delivers life-saving nanotherapeutics directly to obstructed blood…
Brain center for social choices discovered: Poker-playing subjects seen weighing whether to bluff
Although many areas of the human brain are devoted to social tasks like detecting another…
miR loss may power maligant transformation in chronic leukemia
This study shows that loss of a particular molecule in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) shuts…
Eddies, not sunlight, spur annual phytoplankton bloom in North Atlantic
Researchers have long believed that the longer days and calmer seas of spring set off…
The key (proteins) to self-renewing skin
Scientists have discovered how human epidermal progenitor cells and stem cells control transcription factors to…