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Scientists had known that the immune cells may help ward off obesity in mice. The new findings are the first...

Swiss scientists have used a cutting-edge method to stimulate neurons with light. They have successfully recorded synaptic transmission between neurons...

Researchers show that nerve cell centralisation does begin in multicellular animals. While searching for the origin of our brain, biologists...

One of the great recent discoveries in modern biology was that the human body contains 10 times more bacterial cells...

Cells have finger-like projections that they use to feel their surroundings. They can detect the chemical environment and they can...

Using modified human stem cells, a team of UC Davis scientists has developed an improved gene therapy strategy that in...

A team of researchers led by Duke Cancer Institute has identified key events that prompt certain cancer cells to develop...

University of Chicago developmental neuroscientists have found specific brain markers that predict generosity in children. Those neural markers appear to...

The Mariana Trench - located in the Western Pacific near Guam - has been the focus of high-profile voyages to...

A new device for building large tissues from living components of three-dimensional microtissues borrows on ideas from electronics manufacturing. The...

Thanks to standardized image file formats—like JPEG, PNG or TIFF—which store information every time you take a digital photo, you...

Interdisciplinary research at the University of Pennsylvania is showing how cells interact over long distances within fibrous tissue, like that...

Neutrophils, cells recruited by the immune system to fight infection, need to move through a great variety of tissues. New...

New UCLA research indicates that lost memories can be restored. The findings offer some hope for patients in the early...

A Yale University lab has crafted the first synthetic molecules that have both the targeting and response functions of antibodies....

A Colorado man made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) this summer when he became the...

Humans’ ability to detect the direction of movement of stimuli in their sensory world is critical to survival. Much of...

German doctors on Friday gave details of how an experimental drug together with advanced intensive care helped save a Ugandan...

UCLA researchers have developed a lens-free microscope that can be used to detect the presence of cancer or other cell-level...

Prostate cancer affects more than 23,000 men this year in the USA however the individual genes that initiate prostate cancer...