Bioengineers have developed a new construction kit for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. The research could revolutionize therapies for complex conditions like autoimmune ...

A study of gene expression in the human brain shows that cell types become increasingly specialized, rather than simply more numerous. The human brain stands out as the organ that most distinctly ...

Kidney and nerve tissue cells can form memories much like brain cells, one new study has found. Another recent study says ...

As the so-called bird flu wreaks havoc on chicken and dairy farms, scientists warn a new human pandemic could be on the ...

Since its discovery in the 1990s, programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) has been regarded as a leading target in cancer ...

Bits of DNA from mitochondria can skip surprisingly fast into our genome and may reduce lifespan M ost of us remember two ...

Rice University bioengineers have developed a new construction kit for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. The research, published in the journal Science, represents a major ...

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel shared how their anatomy operates with separate organs as well as fused organs they ...