If you're looking to eat better without giving up burgers and dogs this summer, hybrid beef might be the easiest answer.

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In a major breakthrough for diabetes treatment, scientists have found a new way to regenerate insulin-producing cells. This ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests.

A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological ...

Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the 'powerhouses' of our cells, allows us to make the fuel we need from sugars, a ...

Two new studies suggest that stem cells are close to helping people with Parkinson's disease. The results are a victory for scientists who have spent decades trying to treat it with brain cells.

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If you want to understand how cells function, you have to work out what proteins interact with — and where. To coordinate the mass of moving parts, eukaryotic cells evolved membrane-bound ...