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How do stem cells preserve their ability to become any type of cell in the body? And how do they...

Cancer uses a little-understood element of cell signaling to hijack the communication process and spread, according to Rice University researchers....

The brain’s alphabet is a mix of rate and precise timing of electrical pulses: the observation was made by researchers...

Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s or Parkinson’s are caused by defect and aggregated proteins accumulating in brain nerve cells that...

Researchers delivered a modified RNA that encodes a telomere-extending protein to cultured human cells. Cell proliferation capacity was dramatically increased,...

A research article published today in Science presents the first major analysis based on the Human Protein Atlas, including a...

A revolutionary device has been shown to significantly lower blood pressure among patients with uncontrolled high blood pressure, compared to...

In the largest collaborative study of the brain to date, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University...

The ability to grow human heart muscle cells in bulk could help routine replacement of heart cells damaged during a...

In findings that may lead to new treatments for cognitive disorders, researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory...

With the goal of making it easier for surgeons to detect malignant tissue during surgery and hopefully reduce the rate...

Results from a preliminary study indicate that among patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), treatment with nonmyeloablative hematopoietic stem cell...

Bacteria communicate by means of chemical signals and can develop common characteristics through this "agreement" and also develop their potential...

For the first time since the 1970s, researchers are on the verge of developing a new class of anesthetics. According...

Professor Martin Bornhäuser and Doctor Christoph Röllig, both experts in the field of blood cancer at the Carl Gustav Carus...

In new research published in Endocrinology, Thomas Burris, Ph.D., chair of pharmacological and physiological science at Saint Louis University, reports...

Scientists have found the balance necessary to aid healing with high-tech hydrogel. Rice chemist Jeffrey Hartgerink, lead author Vivek Kumar...

Researchers have succeeded for the first time in controlling the function of sperm by optogenetics. They inserted a light-activated enzyme...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new, wearable sensor that uses silver nanowires to monitor electrophysiological signals,...

Microscopic spheres of calcium phosphate have been linked to the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a major cause of...