Once confined to Latin America, Chagas disease – a potentially deadly parasitic infection that is spread in a gross way – is ...

A cell can act in astonishingly complex ways. It must decide for itself whether to grow and multiply, rest, specialize, age ...

The air we breathe may be seeding our brains with toxic proteins. A landmark study reveals a direct link between fine ...

In a human body, cells are constantly making life-or-death decisions. If they make the wrong choice, the result can be cancer. It may be possible to treat diseases by influencing this behavior.

The research could open up avenues for fertility treatments after additional refinement and trials, but it also raises ...

Researchers have developed brain-on-a-chip technology that uses human tissue to model how the brain’s protective barrier breaks down during inflammation and disease.

Every minute, a woman in the U.S. requires a blood transfusion due to heavy menstrual bleeding, or HMB. One in three women ...

Scientists discovered that Gila monster venom contains a compound that slows digestion. It led to one of the biggest medical ...

The Armenian immigrant and Flagship Pioneering visionary has spent decades turning scientific impossibilities into ...

Stories like Mendosa’s have become commonplace in the age of Ozempic. According to a 2024 Kaiser Family Foundation survey, ...

A lab in the Swiss town of Vevey is working on a research program that seems straight out of science fiction. Dishes no ...

Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...