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Rice University's SynthX Center, directed by Han Xiao, has received an up to five-year, $18 million award from the Advanced ...

An interdisciplinary team including researchers at McGill University has found a range of unexpected chemical contaminants in ...

Yasser Payne grew up in Harlem, New York, where violence was all around him. A number of his family members and friends were ...

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Treating people who are at high risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can delay the onset of the disease for several years, with ...

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In a new pilot feasibility study, researchers from Mayo Clinic, the University of Washington School of Medicine, the ...

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Preventing high blood glucose (pre-diabetes) from turning into type 2 diabetes with lifestyle changes could more than halve ...

A landmark UK study involving tens of thousands of families has shown that childhood screening for type 1 diabetes is ...