Scientists have already created designer viruses in a lab that can kill dangerous bacteria. The next step is designing and ...

Optimizing the aging process isn’t a new concept for researchers. Scientists have long studied the world’s Blue Zones ...

Often described as ‘miracle’ cells, stem cells need to be truly mastered if we’re to use them in medical treatments.

By electrically stimulating macrophages, scientists at Trinity College Dublin have found a way to calm inflammation and ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs ...

Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular ...

Cells at the bottom of a liquid medium begin levitating, then hovering at a particular height. With no physical contact, an ...

Amy Cohen is running the New York City Marathon despite living with the painful effects of sickle cell disease.

So-called rare earth elements refer to 17 chemically-similar, silvery-white elements that are used to make magnets – which in ...

If cancer is a disease of overabundance, where cells divide without restraint and tumors grow despite the body's best interests, then degenerative diseases are disorders of deprivation. When ...

A recent study led by Tiffany Schmidt, Ph.D., associate professor of Ophthalmology and of Neurobiology in the Weinberg ...

Cancer treatment has always been a balancing act—hit the tumor hard enough to kill it, but not so hard that the patient ...