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It's one of the origins-of-life chicken-or-egg problems: How could RNA have helped give rise to the first cells before there were cells to contain it?

A new Northwestern Medicine study has identified a previously unknown mechanism by which an enzyme promotes cancer cell proliferation, establishing it as a promising therapeutic target for cancer, according to findings published ...

In the animal kingdom, energy conservation is essential for survival. That's why our brains have evolved to be extremely energy- and resource-efficient at storing and processing information. Since the 1980s, computational ...

New research from QUT challenges a common assumption in social media marketing: For fast-food brands, social media posts that signal expertise and competence are shared more often than those focused on warmth and friendliness.

From Texas to Maine, coastal wetlands and marshes are releasing more than 1.45 billion pounds (660,000 metric tons) of carbon into the ocean each year, according to new research supported by NASA. Coastal marshes, like forests ...

On Aug. 15, the CTAO LST Collaboration and the MAGIC Collaboration released findings from observations of OP 313, the most distant very-high-energy blazar ever recorded. The paper, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, presents ...

Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disorder characterized by difficulties with social interaction, restricted interests and repetitive behaviors. It has attracted significant attention because of its high prevalence, ...

Humans develop at a slower rate than other mammalian species, like mice, but scientists are still trying to understand the molecular basis of these differences. Now, researchers from the Ebisuya Group at EMBL Barcelona and ...

Standard memory tests, such as word-pair or list-learning tests used in clinics, may fail to detect the real-life memory problems reported by many female breast cancer survivors after chemotherapy. A new study in journal ...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) poses an increasing global burden for older adults, according to a study published online Aug. 19 in the Journal of Geriatric Oncology.

Rhabdomyosarcomas are a rare form of cancer; however, the disease is responsible for about 60% of all soft-tissue sarcomas in children. Rhabdomyosarcomas are aberrant, malignant forms of muscle tissue. Early detection of ...

For decades, wildlife traffickers have illegally captured and sold hundreds of thousands of wild parrots native to Mexico. Despite changes to international wildlife laws, the conservation status of these birds has continued ...