The body’s pathogen fighters can act as surveillance forces that ferry information from the gut and fat deposits to the brain ...

In a leap forward for genetic and biomedical research, two scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a powerful ...

How do we think, feel, remember, or move? These processes involve synaptic transmission, in which chemical signals are transmitted between nerve cells using molecular containers called vesicles. Now, ...

New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.

Miniature organs on a chip could allow us to do scientific studies with great precision, without having to resort to animal testing. The main problem, however, is that artificial tissue needs blood ...

As Neeraj Ghaywan’s ‘Homebound’ evokes global interest, writer Basharat Peer takes us to the origins of the moving tale of ...

One of the grand joys of being old is dealing with what we’ll call the eccentricities of Medicare. Most prominent, of course, ...

If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school ...