Our bodies are made up of around 75 billion cells. But what function does each individual cell perform and how greatly do a healthy person's cells differ from those of someone with a disease? To draw ...

Rakesh Jain PhD, Director of the E.L. Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and A. Werk ...

(d) “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. (e) “Male” means ...

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich have for the first time investigated how protein structures derived from fava beans affect a ...

In the anxious brain— whether through overexcitability of the stress response system, the activity of various neurochemicals, impairments in nerve circuitry, or inactivation of specific cell ...

The discovery and development of drugs in pharmacological research – including the risk assessment of active substances in ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...

Shares of Vigil Neuroscience (NASDAQ:VIGL) rose ~18% in the premarket on Thursday after the Sanofi (SNY)-backed biotech said that it expects to advance its Alzheimer's candidate VG-3927 into a Phase 2 ...

T cells play a pivotal role in the immune system by transforming into powerful effector cells that combat pathogens. This transformation requires rapid proliferation, during which DNA replication ...

By studying biomarkers known to be involved in gastrointestinal cancers, researchers have developed a biomarker algorithm that, when combined with a noninvasive method to collect esophageal cells for ...

The timeline in which alcohol compounds are present in your body varies greatly. Learn more about how the body processes alcohol and if you can flush your system.

The Massachusetts based biotech will now press ahead with human trials for its antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapy, ...