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Egypt’s state of emergency, which gave extensive powers to the authorities to detain suspects, has expired after 31 years in force.

Satellite images obtained by a U.S. research organization suggest Iran may be trying to wipe traces of nuclear weapon testing from a key military site. The Washington-based Institute for Scien......

ISTANBUL – Somalia needs the backing of other countries to overcome its more than two decades of instability, leaders said Thursday at a meeting in Turkey. Representatives from 54 countrie......

NAIROBI, Kenya – An estimated 2.6 million Kenyans are infected with jiggers, a flea-like parasite that burrows under the skin. Left untreated, jiggers can lead to all kinds of secondary in......

Researchers recently investigated whether a specific gene/enzyme could be help explain why some obese people do not get chronic diseases typically associated with obesity.

The 20 proteins in the Wnt family are some of the most important proteins in controlling how an organism develops and grows, but for 30 years scientists have not known what these vital proteins ......

Scientists have demonstrated how the world’s most powerful X-ray laser can assist in cracking the structures of biomolecules, and in the processes helped to pioneer critical new investigat......

Humans, fish and frogs share neural circuits responsible for a diversity of social behavior, from flashy mating displays to aggression and monogamy, that have existed for more than 450 million y......

Biochemists have designed specialized proteins that assemble themselves to form tiny molecular cages hundreds of times smaller than a single cell. The creation of these miniature structures may ......

The molecular structure of a protein involved in Alzheimer’s disease — and the surprising discovery that it binds cholesterol — could lead to new therapeutics for the disease, ......