Over the course of evolution, the human heart has largely lost its ability to regenerate. Our distant ancestors were not ...

By electrically stimulating macrophages, scientists at Trinity College Dublin have found a way to calm inflammation and ...

A naturally occurring gene called Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can actually make new, functioning heart cells and help the heart repair itself from injury, including a ...

Over the course of evolution, the human heart has largely lost its ability to regenerate. Our distant ancestors were not ...

As chronic liver disease becomes more widespread, researchers at Science Tokyo have developed a lab-grown organoid that ...

Researchers found that losing a second protein, FIGNL1, allows cancer cells missing BRCA2 to restore DNA repair by reloading ...

If cancer is a disease of overabundance, where cells divide without restraint and tumors grow despite the body's best interests, then degenerative diseases are disorders of deprivation. When ...

Clinical trials for a laser treatment targeting this common eye disease will begin in Finland next spring, and researchers hope it could become available to patients within three years. About one in ...

Could yeast and humans be any more different? Going by looks alone, probably not. But peering into our genomes reveals ...

Bowhead whales can live over 200 years thanks to a protein that helps their cells repair DNA damage efficiently.

When it comes to treating disease, one promising avenue is addressing the presence of senescent cells. These cells—also known ...