A body that weighs as much as a small airplane should face steep odds against cancer. You may expect that from a creature packed with billions of cells, each with a chance to slip into danger as years ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

Manchester inventor Dean Kamen announced on Friday the culmination of his effort to transform greater Manchester into a hub ...

For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part of their philanthropy on a lofty ...

In the study, published in Science Translational Medicine on Nov. 5, researchers identified proteins expressed on the surface ...

In this system, the implanted computer chip would not just sit on the brain, but become part of the brain. Using a technology ...

A collection of studies that chart how mammalian brain cells grow and differentiate is a ‘very valuable’ tool for ...

Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature ...

A new pancreatic cancer therapy targets sugar molecules on cell surfaces, offering hope where traditional immunotherapies ...