More than 40 million people worldwide are infected with the herpes virus every year. The virus can pose a serious threat to newborns and people with weakened immune systems. Researchers in Hamburg and ...

A new study reveals that small cell lung cancer (SCLC) likely begins in basal stem-like cells rather than in neuroendocrine ...

Some of our biggest threats can come in the tiniest forms—viruses and bacteria. Thankfully, we are born with a built-in ...

For decades, scientists thought the noncoding parts of DNA were useless leftovers. Today, that view has completely changed.

Cell therapy refers to a treatment that involves the use of living cells to treat diseases. The cell therapy market has been ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

While our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease is far from complete, the latest therapies, and others in more than 100 ...

Primary cilia play a powerful role in how cells sense their surroundings. They help guide embryo development and ensure ...

Extremophiles are a favorite tool of astrobiologists. But not only are they good for understanding the kind of extreme ...

New research suggests that lithium is depleted in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and is essential for normal brain ...

New results from a clinical trial show that existing drugs can successfully kill dormant breast cancer cells, thereby reducing lifetime risk of recurrence.

A ‘noisy’ chromatin structure allows cells to take on different identities, helping the immune system but possibly leading to ...