Credit: Brass Lab WORCESTER, MA – Eight weeks after receiving their first samples of Zika virus, scientists at the University ...

Intestinal stem cells are among the most rapidly dividing cells in the body, busily creating new cells to replace the ...

Compared to other mammals, humans have the largest cerebral cortex. A sheet of brain cells that folds in on itself ...

Blacks between the ages of 45 and 54 die of strokes at a rate that is three times greater than ...

A person’s genetic makeup plays a role in autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis that develop when the body is ...

Eating walnuts may change gut bacteria in a way that suppresses colon cancer, researchers led by UConn Health report in ...

Credit: Babraham Institute Use of a new technique developed at the Babraham Institute has allowed researchers to take an in-depth ...

For a long time dismissed as “junk DNA”, we now know that also the regions between the genes fulfil vital ...

The Telomeres and Telomerase Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), in collaboration with the Centre’s Transgenic Mice ...

A dietary supplement containing a blend of thirty vitamins and minerals–all natural ingredients widely available in health food stores–has shown ...

Credit: Hickner Group/Penn State A new type of 3-D printing will make it possible for the first time to rapidly ...

Dopamine signaling in the kidneys plays a critical role in blood pressure regulation and is responsible for nearly half of ...

It has been established that not all cancer cells are equally aggressive – most can be neutralised with radiation and ...

Physicians have long used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to detect cancer but results of a University of California San Diego ...

MADISON, Wis. — A new mouse model, developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the first to show ...

Researchers have developed an integrated, wearable system that monitors a user’s environment, heart rate and other physical attributes with the ...

Innovation in ‘Big Data’ helps address problems that were previously overwhelming. What we know about organisms is in hundreds of ...

In humans and in animals, the correct position of tissues, organs and appendages is essential. Two body axes (the head-tail ...

ST. LOUIS — Researchers should include laboratory mice that are old and obese in their studies of immunotherapy treatments for ...

Credit: Ross Neitz (Edmonton, AB) Most people have heard the old adage “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” ...