The heart, as the vital organ that pumps blood to about 73 trillion cells of the human body must be sufficiently active and ...

Folic acid, also known as vitamin B9, is an important B-vitamin with many vital functions in the human body. It was discovered in the early 1930s when an English scientist isolated a compound from ...

Cells experience many different types of stress, such as starvation or stress caused by too much salt or too high a temperature. Insulin signals respond to such stress signals by sending the protein ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

"NEW YEAR, new me" is a phrase many people use as the new year begins, when they often make resolutions to improve themselves ...

For the first time, scientists have answered a longstanding question in cell biology about a partnership of proteins called ...

Certain antibodies employ unusual tactics to keep germs from attaching to cells in our bodies. Their defensive strategies ...

Scientists at the Princeton University Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have identified novel mechanisms by ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

A researcher is planning on investigating potential treatments aimed at the root causes of type 1 diabetes. At the (MUSC), ...

Mammals aren’t known for the ocular regenerative powers, but a new study shows that nature has a few tricks up its sleeve.

Every person who has ever been pregnant leaves a biological trace that is far more intimate than a family photo album. During ...