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A Baylor College of Medicine-led research team has identified a molecular route by which estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer cells ...

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A new complex medical diagnosis may do more than reshape a patient’s treatment plan. It may also influence which health ...

Influenza A virus (IAV) may target the lung’s most vulnerable cells not because they allow the virus to enter more ...

A new study published in Nature Communications warns that climate warming may be doing more than drying soils across the ...

Dryland dumpsites may be doing far more than storing discarded plastic. A new review suggests that the intense sunlight, dramatic ...

Lung cancer screening can detect tumors before symptoms appear, when treatment is more likely to succeed, yet a national analysis ...

A new review suggests that the next generation of biomedical hydrogels could be designed less like uniform gels and more ...