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Researchers evaluated tissues for fibrosis using MeCo Score, a diagnostic tool that can potentially predict the likelihood of relapse or recurrence among patients with early-stage breast cancer.

Like hibernating bears, certain bacterial cells have the ability to shift into a "low-power" metabolic state in which they ...

Our cells contain thousands of proteins that have gone largely undetected and unstudied until recent years: these are ...

Fort Worth Police Department addresses a backlog of sexual assault kits, highlighting challenges with CODIS entry due to ...

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to design thousands of new DNA switches that can precisely control the expression of a gene in different cell types. Their new approach opens the ...