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For decades, vast stretches of the animal genome were dismissed as genetic “junk”—repetitive DNA sequences that do not encode proteins ...

Low- and middle-income countries are carrying the overwhelming share of the world’s cervical cancer deaths, and a new review warns ...

A simple calculation from two routine blood tests is drawing new attention to a question that could affect millions of ...

As families across the United States rebuild school-day routines, a familiar morning problem is taking on new significance: how to ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a wastewater treatment technology that could transform nitrogen pollution from an environmental liability into a ...

A new study from Osaka Metropolitan University is drawing attention to an overlooked consequence of shoulder replacement surgery: the gradual ...

Canada’s blood supply is confronting a paradox: patients with sickle cell disease urgently need transfusions from a more ethnically diverse ...

Pregnancy Is a High-Stakes Biological Trial, and Loss Is Its Most Common Outcome Pregnancy is often described as a predictable ...

Extreme heat and bitter cold are usually reported as threats to health, infrastructure and agriculture. A new study published in ...