Homeostasis is the ability of living organisms to maintain stable internal conditions, such as temperature, hydration and ...

Taste, pain, or response to stress—nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by molecular switches ...

A 75-person team at Seattle's Allen Institute is embarking on a 10-year project called CellScapes to devise a mathematical ...

An international team of scientists have unlocked a key piece of Earth's evolutionary puzzle by decoding the structure of a ...

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research.

Thetis cells, a class of immune cells first described in 2022, play an essential and previously unknown role in suppressing inflammatory responses to food, a new study finds.

The Allen Institute today announced the launch of CellScapes, a bold new research initiative aimed at revolutionizing how scientists understand and predict the behavior of human cells as they work ...

Australian researchers have discovered a molecule that may stop brain cell death linked to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

This fundamental study explores a novel cellular mechanism underlying the degeneration of locus coeruleus neurons during chronic restraint stress. The evidence supporting the overexpression of LC ...