There are many things we’ve learned from studying the ancient Egyptians. One especially fascinating discovery was evidence of ...

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Technology can be harnessed to design novel and enhanced molecules that address challenges in biotechnology or medicine. Australian researchers, including those at the Charles Perkins Centre at the ...

While there is no definitive evidence linking chemicals to increased cancer risk in young people, this is an area of intense ...

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PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

RNA-based liquid biopsy developed at the University of Chicago detects early-stage colorectal cancer with 95% accuracy using ...