It spares healthy cells while taking out cancerous ones.

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Hormones slowly transform kids to adults by altering tissues throughout the body

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Nanotechnology limits damage and boosts healing in severely affected tissues

Even if most students feel fine, everyone should know how to get help

Blood tests in hundreds of college athletes turned up proteins signaling brain injury

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Leticia Márquez-Magaña studies the biological impacts of racism on African-Americans, Latina women and other marginalized communities.

The challenge: Money and other resources are geared more to helping smokers, not vapers

Experts worry that the high nicotine in pod-like e-cigs boost addiction and other health risks