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Scientists in Italy have found a way to boost the power of MRI tracer chemicals - by hiding them inside a patient's own cells.
A major problem with contrast agents like iron oxide nanoparticles, which are designed to enhance the signals scanners can pick up from certain tissues is that the agents ...
Crabs and other crustaceans in the ocean could be the first to suffocate in the increasing number of marine "dead zones" in the world, areas where there is little or no oxygen. What's more, the extent of oxygen deprivation in the oceans could be much larger than previously thought.These ar...
An international team of scientists have found new evidence pointing to 1908 as the year when HIV was born. Writing in Nature this week, University of Arizona researcher Mike Worobey describes how he and his colleagues uncovered traces of a fossil form of HIV in tissue samples collected in Afr...
Beetles use an antibiotic new to science to protect their fungal food stores from attack by other fungal invaders. That's according to a new study published this week in the journal Science by a team of researchers led by Jarrod Scott from the University of Wisconsin Madison.
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