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When a salamander loses a tail, it grows a new one. What’s the difference, biologist Peter Reddien wondered, between a wound that severs a salamander’s...

Your brain transmits information about your current location and memories of past locations over the same neural pathways using different frequencies of a rhythmic electrical...

In a new study from Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), researchers have used human pluripotent stem cells to generate new hair. The study represents the...

The creation of genetically modified and entirely synthetic organisms continues to generate excitement as well as worry. Scientists have genetically recoded a strain of E....

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California at San Francisco have revealed how a type of cancer-causing virus called...

A new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers suggests that targeting a key enzyme and its associated metabolic programming may lead to...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the largest collaborative study of the brain to date, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) led...