Doctors discovered a woman had "blood chimerism" after examining the chromosomes of cells from different parts of her body.

Our body's immune system is quick to spring into action when it spots a foreign object that shouldn't be there. Sometimes the ...

Mary Roach's new book Replaceable You explores what we do when bits of our bodies break down or need switching out. It makes ...

A research team from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague has discovered Solarion arienae, an extremely rare ...

Cells have an internal skeleton that maintains their structure and also drives their movement. Known as the cytoskeleton, ...

The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a ...

About 1 million people in the U.S. live with multiple sclerosis, a chronic autoimmune disease that inflames the nervous ...

Researchers found that hot tubs raise core body temperature more effectively than traditional or infrared saunas, leading to ...

Mutations drive evolution, but they can also be risky. New research led by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, published Nov. 10 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

Researchers have developed a new way to deliver drugs to the central nervous system, offering hope for multiple sclerosis.

Probiotic species used in humans for many years are also candidates, including Escherichia coli Nissle, Lactobacillus and ...

For years scientists have suspected that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)—a type of herpesvirus that infects 94 percent of the ...