Pregnancy creates a lifelong biological link as cells pass between mother and child and remain in the body for decades.

Researchers at Leipzig University and TU Dresden have succeeded in developing biological switches that can selectively turn ion channels on and off using light pulses. Initial applications show that ...

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Millions of people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer every year. In advanced tumor diseases, cancer cells detach from the ...

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More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

A "gene silencer" (technically known as small interfering RNA, or siRNA), locally delivered by nanoparticles embedded in an ...

The university's scientists have received a $28.5 million award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop a transplantable 3D-printed liver patch. The initiative ...

Life Extension reports women live 5.4 years longer than men due to biological and behavioral factors, but men can narrow this ...

Scientists denounced the move, arguing that fetal tissue is crucial for understanding human development and diseases.

Blake Rushing, PhD, has launched an independent research laboratory at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute, advancing ...

Cilia are evolutionarily conserved, microtubule-based organelles that project from the surface of most eukaryotic cells and play a central role in sensing ...