Brain cell signals travel along axons, the thin wire-like extensions of neurons, moving signals along the membrane in a pearl ...
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified central routes that two deadly viruses take to invade human cells and have designed decoy molecules that block the ...
Now researchers think they know why: Bowhead whales are very good at repairing damaged DNA, which leads to many ailments ...
About one-third of all drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration target the largest family of cell membrane ...
She had to fight for recognition after a male colleague took credit for her work in identifying an extra chromosome as the ...
Patients with a history of breastfeeding showed higher levels of specialized immune cells in their breasts that may protect ...
Most Parkinson's symptoms stem from the loss or dysfunction of dopamine-producing neurons in a brain region involved in fine ...
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have unearthed a "universal thermal performance curve" (UTPC) that seemingly applies to all species and ...
New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.
The approach, published on 23 October in Science, builds on a trend that is sweeping the field of drug discovery: the use of ...
A team of scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have created an ultrathin transistor unlike ...