Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

Randomness inside cells can decide whether a cancer returns after chemotherapy or whether an infection survives antibiotics.

For decades, this question has bewildered biologists. Now, by studying Placozoa, scientists at Stanford University have ...

A cancer vaccine that maximizes immunity by injecting inactivated cancer cells into the body is beginning a Phase 1 clinical ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

A new study reveals that brief binge drinking disrupts gut integrity by activating immune cells that damage the intestinal ...

Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

When the US Department of Energy announced that it would stop funding the tokamak at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, ...

Innovative research into the gene-editing tool targets influenza’s ability to replicate—stopping it in its tracks.

Now a team of Brazilian scientists has put that tradition through a modern stress test: standardized extracts, controlled ...