Cancer treatments don't always work as expected, leaving patients to suffer side effects of chemotherapy without gaining benefits. Now scientists are exploring whether tiny proxy organs made in the ...

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Hypertonic solutions have more dissolved stuff (like salt) than the inside of cells, causing water to leave the cells and ...

A scientist was off the grid for weeks on vacation and got a tremendous surprise when he finally got a phone signal ...

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Regulatory T cells, which prevent the immune system from attacking the body, were the subject of this year’s Physiology or ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a trio of researchers whose work identified and shed light ...

Immunologist Daniel Davis wants to eradicate long-held myths and replace them with wonder at the complexity of the body’s ...

Cellular membrane proteins play many important roles throughout the body, including transporting substances in and out of the ...

Rotavirus causes severe dehydrating diarrhea in infants and young children, contributing to more than 128,500 deaths per year ...