The hunt for the holy grail of a longer life has consumed the careers of the brightest scientists and dented the fortunes of ...

I still remember the first time I was introduced to the concept of “fat”. I was watching an aunt dissect a piece of fried chicken at dinner, using a knife and fork to peel off the skin to reveal the ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks ...

A new Dartmouth study opens new avenues for understanding—and potentially manipulating—how cells decide to live or die.

All cells need to sense and respond to their environment, to know when to activate genes, build proteins, and carry out their ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

A cutting-edge base-edited CAR T-cell therapy is opening a revolutionary new frontier for patients battling aggressive T-cell ...

Prominent bioengineer Ali Khademhosseini has so far corrected more than 40 of the papers in question, but critics say some ...

Human intestinal M cells function as dendritic cell-like antigen-presenting cells, displaying constitutive MHC-II activity ...

Metastasis occurs when cancer cells break away from the original tumor and travel through the bloodstream to form new tumors in other parts of the body. It is the leading cause of cancer-related death ...

Researchers uncovered a powerful weakness in lung cancer by shutting down a protein that helps tumors survive stress. When this protein, FSP1, was blocked, lung tumors in mice shrank dramatically, ...