If you were about to enter a crowded subway during flu season, packed with people sneezing and coughing, wouldn't it...

Liver cells derived from stem cells can be infected with malaria and used to test potential drugs. MIT researchers engineered...

Researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) have discovered a precise stem cell signaling process that can lead to intestinal...

Through an investigation of a fundamental process that guides the maturation of immune cells, researchers have revealed new insights into...

To help people with hormone deficiencies, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a potential new therapy based...

For patients with brain cancer, radiation is a powerful and potentially life-saving treatment, but it can also cause considerable and...

One of the most exciting scientific advances made in recent years is CRISPR—the ability to precisely edit the genome of...

New brain research findings suggest long-term meditation may lead to less age-related gray matter atrophy in the human brain. Since...

Crops and other plants are constantly faced with adverse environmental conditions, such as rising temperatures (2014 was the warmest year...

The brain is protected by a barrier of cells that tightly regulates the transport of substances into this organ in...

A compound found in common foods such as red grapes and peanuts may help prevent age-related decline in memory, according...

Neurons in the brain are wired like a social network, report researchers from Biozentrum, University of Basel. Each nerve cell...

A team of researchers, led by Samuel K. Sia, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has developed a...

The discovery of a new “reset” button for the brain’s master biological clock could eventually lead to new treatments for...

The delivery of tiny biodegradable microstructures to heart tissue damaged by heart attack may help repair the tissue and prevent...

Inserting a specific strain of bacteria into the microenvironment of aggressive ovarian cancer transforms the behavior of tumor cells from...

Researchers have cracked a code that governs infections by a major group of viruses including the common cold and polio....

Eve, an artificially-intelligent 'robot scientist' could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society...

Magnetoception is a sense which allows bacteria, insects and even vertebrates like birds and sharks to detect magnetic fields for...

The thousands of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) molecules present in each cell are known primarily for their role converting food and...