One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

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In response to reporters’ findings, the University of North Texas Health Science Center announced it was suspending its body ...

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Thousands of potentially toxic plastic chemicals can migrate from food processing and packaging into the human body, a new ...

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The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western ...

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A NBC News report has prompted outcry from researchers and county leaders, including the county’s former longtime medical ...