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Cells that relay information from the ear to the brain can change in significant ways in response to the noise level in the environment.That's one...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have used exosomes -- tiny bubbles of protein and fat produced naturally by cells --...

During each cell division, more than 3.3 billion base pairs of genomic DNA have to be duplicated and segregated accurately to daughter cells. But what...

Researchers at the University of Houston have created an optical lens that can be placed on an inexpensive smartphone to magnify images by a magnitude...

A biochemist from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is a co-author on a paper in Nature that describes a new,...

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the main component of our genetic material. It is formed by combining four parts: A, C, G and T (adenine, cytosine,...

A Tufts University study sheds new light on the process by which DNA repair occurs within the cell. In research published in the May 15...

Researchers demonstrate the ability to tune medically relevant cell behaviors by manipulating a key hub in cell communication networks. The manipulation of this communication node,...

When the common chemotherapy drugs cisplatin or oxaliplatin hit cancer cells, they damage DNA so that the cells can't replicate. But the cells have ways...

"The word, virus, connotes morbidity and mortality, but that bad reputation is not universally deserved," said Marilyn Roossinck, PhD, Professor of Plant Pathology and Environmental...

A study tying the aging process to the deterioration of tightly packaged bundles of cellular DNA could lead to methods of preventing and treating age-related...

Every day, thousands of people need donated blood. But only blood without A- or B-type antigens, such as type O, can be given to all...

The human immune system is poised to spring into action at the first sign of a foreign invader, but it often fails to eliminate tumors...

Implantable device could allow doctors to test cancer drugs in patients before prescribing chemotherapy. More than 100 drugs have been approved to treat cancer, but...