Jewel Plummer Cobb was a cancer researcher who investigated how hormones, ultraviolet light and chemotherapeutic drugs can ...

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Antarctica’s eerie Blood Falls puzzled scientists worldwide. Was it a frozen crime scene, ancient bacteria, or something even stranger? The mystery is finally solved, and the truth behind this ...

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On December 28, 2024, a long-awaited Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule became effective, significantly updating ...

To address this gap, researchers used an advanced "multi-layered omics" approach to examine gene expression, proteins, and metabolites in blood samples from over 800 European children, together ...

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