Scientists have uncovered a surprising dark side to vitamin B2: it may help cancer cells stay alive. The vitamin supports a ...

A casual conversation between graduate students helped spark a breakthrough in aging research at Mayo Clinic. Researchers discovered that tiny synthetic DNA molecules called aptamers can selectively ...

Hold a Chinese money plant up to the light and you can see its veins branching through the round, translucent leaf like ...

Scientists have discovered that Mimosa pudica, known as the ‘shy plant,’ possesses the capacity for enumeration. This finding ...

Ulrich Mueller, Erika Pearce recognized for their groundbreaking work on hearing loss and immune metabolism, respectively ...

Jody Baron and Gabi Fragiadakis discover why some people with chronic Hepatitis B are cured after they're taken off of ...

A patent awarded to an elite-funded biomedical research institution details technology described as enabling the 'remote ...

Each year, more than 34,000 students across the country apply for the Gates Scholarship, awarded to outstanding high school ...

Microglia, the immune cells that protect the brain, are thought to maintain a healthy brain environment by removing unwanted substances through dynamic remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton, the cell's ...

A type of immune cell circulating in the blood contributes to cognitive ageing, and blocking its effects can reverse the ...

A new nanoscopy technique developed at The Australian National University (ANU) has uncovered hidden networks used for communication between cells, opening new ways to understand human diseases.

Researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine have found that ethnicity and geography may influence human molecular makeup - ...