A newly discovered communication system in the microscopic “antennae” of cells may help explain how some congenital heart defects develop. When genetic mutations disrupt this system, the effects may ...

A single drug taken during pregnancy may leave sharply different fingerprints on the developing brains of boys and girls, and a new study points to an unexpected culprit: a form of iron-driven cell ...

Cancer biology—and, in turn, cancer treatment—have come a long way in the last few decades. Most people recognize this ...

Repetitive DNA and the D1 protein help matching fruit fly chromosomes recognize one another before eggs form.

Inside each human cell, about 2 meters (6.6 feet) of genomic DNA must be accurately copied and equally transmitted to two ...

H5N1 bird flu caused severe infections in cows’ udders while largely sparing their lungs when it began spreading among U.S.

In yeast cells, caffeine activated an energy-sensing system tied to stress resistance, DNA repair, and longevity.

Two patients receive the same immunotherapy for the same cancer. In one, the tumor retreats and stays gone for years. In the ...

Blade 1998 science holds up 28 years later: the horror-action film built its vampire mythology on real biochemistry, ...

Scientists discovered a population of cells that can start the process of programmed cell death, survive it, and then help rapidly rebuild damaged tissue. Their descendants become far more resistant ...

For the first time, scientists have created a single-cell and spatial transcriptomics framework to investigate damage to ...

A Stanford Medicine study has challenged the traditional understanding of brain development, finding that the forebrain and hindbrain arise from separate progenitor cells. Researchers traced this ...