Zhijian “James” Chen received this year’s Albert Lasker Award for discovering cGAS, an enzyme which scopes out DNA-based ...

A new study employs a multiomic approach to study how cytomegalovirus activation impacts breast milk bioactive factors and ...

F rom fruit flies that survive a mere two weeks to the giant tortoises of the tropics that can live for nearly 200 years, ...

Studying human embryonic development is complicated for several reasons. Models derived from pluripotent stem cells ...

Cells send electrical impulses throughout the body, but electrophysiologists struggled to tune into these signals until the ...

As the famed British naturalist David Attenborough noted, “In our hands now lies not only our own future but that of all ...

ABOVE: Protein misfolding plays an important role in many neurodegenerative disorders. © istock.com, Eoneren. W hen Julie ...

In the middle of the 20th century, science disciplines collided and set the stage for a technology that changed cell research ...

With the rise of insecticide resistance, researchers crafted a novel probe that selectively targets mosquito larvae’s weak ...

S ex differences are crucial for understanding the brain, yet neuroscience has long favored male models, skewing insights and ...

Algae could reduce nutrient pollution in wastewater at the same time as recovering minerals like phosphorus, which could be ...

Culturing pluripotent stem cells to replicate different stages of embryonic development allows researchers to more easily ...