Brazilian researchers have found that stellate pancreatic cells produce periostin, which reshapes surrounding tissue and allows tumors to spread more easily, helping explain why the disease is so ...

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Photo of Richard Feynman, taken in 1984 in the woods of the Robert Treat Paine Estate in Waltham, MA, while he and the ...

The often media-hyped superiority of Chinese electric cars has not yet translated into major sales successes in Europe at ...

Latest Intel hardware really steps up on gaming and battery life ...

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After three years of study, the researchers found that alpha-synuclein, a protein closely linked to Parkinson’s disease, ...

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A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer ...

A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...

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Scientists have shown that specialized cells involved in how the body responds to insulin are activated in the brain after exercise, suggesting that physical activity may directly improve brain ...