Disturbing news appears nearly daily from the federal government. Among the science-related issues, the most disturbing was ...

O rgan transplants are a familiar idea. Organelle transplants, less so. Yet organelles are to cells what organs are to bodies ...

Suffice it to say, the hidden hand of Nature nudges you, whether you like it or not, down the self-similar branching paths of ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about the genetic structure of ovarian cancer stem cells, ...

The nuclei in our cells are miniature warehouses safeguarding the genetic blueprint for the body's biologic machinery. As ...

So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...

Accumulation of a protein called TDP-43 is a key feature of ALS and frontotemporal dementia. In a newly published study, researchers report ‘seeding’ this accumulation through fragments of the culprit ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

Accumulation of a protein called TDP-43 is a key feature of ALS and frontotemporal dementia. In a newly published study, ...

Two molecular control factors play a decisive role in what is known as splicing, the cutting and assembly of mature messenger ...

Wenzhou Medical University and collaborating institutions have identified a population of human neural retinal stem-like ...