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In a lab in the heart of Boston, professor Bree Aldridge leads a team of researchers trying to understand a threat that is ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a noninvasive medical monitoring device powerful enough to detect single cells within blood ...

In a study published in Science Advances, a research team led by Prof. Liu Chengbo from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced ...

Nearly 150 years ago, scientists began to imagine how information might flow through the brain based on the shapes of neurons ...

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Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their ...

CRCs are the third most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the world. However, SRCC is an ...

The researchers used a laser-powered microscope to record how individual cells in the animal’s visual cortex lit ... each far ...

Human cell models may never be as good as the real thing, but we need these models to be as close as possible to understand how diseases develop and progress, and whether treatments are effective.