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Nandkumar M. Kamat As the year is about to end, here is a short review of important breakthroughs in science that defined the ...

A single 4,000-year-old sheep tooth has turned a long-running mystery about an ancient plague into a concrete trail of ...

UC San Diego researchers uncover enzyme behind cancer genome chaos, pointing to potential therapies for aggressive tumors.

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This has less to do with culture or DNA and more with weak enforcement, selective policing, and inconsistent state authority ...

A study reveals genetic variants linking higher addiction risk to lower education levels, suggesting shared genetic factors influence both.

Figure 1. Overview of sampling design, isolate diversity, and genomic reconstruction of urban E. coli isolates. A research ...

How many measles cases are going undetected? Andrew Pavia, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Utah, said in some communities, getting tested means a tank of gas, missing work, finding a ...

Cholesterol meds—taking by millions of Americans every day—often come with a lifelong prescription, adding out-of-pocket ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...