Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can ...

Around the globe, heart disease remains one of the top causes of death. Once patients begin to suffer from serious heart ...

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 ...

A study of human astrovirus structure reveals the strategy that the virus uses to enter the body, and illuminates the ...

An early-stage study has found that a common chemotherapy drug disrupts lymphatic cells in the tissue surrounding the brain.

A hidden structure inside the cell is rewriting how scientists understand leukemia. Beneath the microscope, what looked like ...

Plant a seed and, if the conditions are right, the seed grows. The process seems simple enough at first glance and is something many of us may feel like we learned in elementary school.

A new experimental compound, RAGE406R, prevented heart, kidney, and tissue damage caused by diabetes by blocking a harmful ...

Scientists have created the world’s first mosquito cell map, revealing how these insects spread diseases like dengue and Zika ...

Cancer treatment has always been a balancing act—hit the tumor hard enough to kill it, but not so hard that the patient ...