There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

A multidisciplinary team has uncovered a key mechanism that allows the human bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae—responsible for ...

When tissue is severely damaged, surviving cells can respond in a concentrated burst of biological repair known as ...

When a T cell encounters a cell carrying pieces of a virus or bacteria, the two form a tight contact point known as an immune ...

Inflammation is a vascular or blood vessel and cellular reaction in the human body to stimulus and trauma. It refers to your ...

Researchers in Japan are exploring a future where the body itself becomes a health monitor, no screens or batteries required.

AMOLF researchers discovered a mysterious interplay of insulin signals in the worm C. elegans. The insulin-driven protein DAF ...

Evidence is mounting that our body fat supports everything from our bone health to our mood, and now, research suggests it ...

New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 ...

IN SHORT: Posts claiming that a South African "doctor" recommends a mixture of Jameson whiskey and garlic to cure HIV/Aids have been circulating on Facebook. But there is no such doctor, and there is ...

New research reveals how a class of neurons that help coordinate communication in the brain link up with their target cells, ...

BEIJING -- A Chinese research team has achieved a major advance in the precise regulation of protein degradation in living ...