Delivering a connection-building protein to star-shaped cells in the brain could reverse changes to neural circuits seen in ...

Antarctic icefish are famous for living without red blood cells, but they are not alone. A species of needle-shaped, ...

Dry eye disease affects millions of people, causing burning, redness, and constant eye fatigue that can worsen over time. Scientists now believe the problem may begin deep inside tear glands, where a ...

Helen Newlove's career in politics was driven by the death of her husband Garry, who was murdered by three youths in 2007.

Researchers identify a shared RNA-protein interaction that could lead to broad-spectrum antiviral treatments for ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.

Estrogen is known as an important hormone, and it can control many functions by regulating the activity of hundreds of genes.

Katie Colling is using tiny tumor models to find uterine cancer interventions that don’t require surgery Katie Colling didn’t ...

Using high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM), the Kanazawa University team led by Mikihiro Shibata filmed the dynamic movements of CaMKII at the single-molecule level. The images revealed that a ...

A Cedars-Sinai study has identified a previously unknown role for astrocyte cells in how the brain responds to damage and ...

The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting.

Life’s fundamental structure is the cell, and so the main things that a cell does — processing biomolecules, growing, replicating its genetic material and producing a new body — are considered ...