Chronic pain affects millions of people in the US. Targeting an oft-overlooked brain receptor could one day offer relief.

Cells once thought passive are now seen as sculptors. Their choreography may explain how tissues form and fail. A new study ...

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium ...

For the past 30 years, scientists have been on a mission to unlock the secrets of how plants defend themselves. That journey ...

Hair transplantation has evolved far beyond the days of simple strip harvesting and obvious pluggy results. Today, it stands ...

A comparative study shows that marine worms shattered their genome and rebuilt it in a radically different form when they first emerged from the sea 200 million years ago ...

Pain is easy to understand until it isn't. A stubbed toe or sprained ankle hurts, but it makes sense because the cause is clear and the pain fades as ...

A model developed by LMU biophysicists demonstrates how biological processes form the convoluted internal architecture of the ...

Every day, our bodies perform around 330 billion cell divisions to keep us alive and functioning. These divisions rely on the ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Every day, our bodies perform around 330 billion cell divisions to keep us alive and functioning. These divisions rely on the ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new way of telling aged human cells apart from younger ones ...