When you think of predators, you likely imagine big animals with sharp claws or teeth, like tigers or sharks. Over 100 ...

How alterations in cell metabolism translate into specific developmental gene programs remains a major question. This study ...

Scientists have the technology to grow humans in Petri dishes, but they say there are better uses for it: to combat aging.

New research is revealing how specialized neurons give our brains an edge artificial intelligence can only dream of ...

In a lab in the heart of Boston, professor Bree Aldridge leads a team of researchers trying to understand a threat that is ...

New mechanisms discovered that show how development-dependent disruptions in mitochondrial function lead to premature skeletal aging.

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds ...

USC researchers have developed an innovative type of cancer-fighting immune cell, the EchoBack CAR T-cell, that uses focused ...

Nearly 150 years ago, scientists began to imagine how information might flow through the brain based on the shapes of neurons ...

For biologists, seeing is believing. But sometimes biologists have a hard time seeing. One particularly vexing challenge is ...

Trans-species infection and transmission of viruses, exemplified by the emergence of influenza and COVID-19 pandemics, present significant global health ...

Cell crowding causes high-grade breast cancer cells to become more invasive by activating a molecular switch that causes the cells to shrink and spread.