A startup company called Zymosense is developing and marketing nanosensors invented in Nigel Reuel's Iowa State lab. The new ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising way the brain switches pain on, revealing that neurons can release an enzyme outside the cell that activates pain signals without disrupting normal movement or ...

Our immune systems weaken as we get older, making fewer cells that fight infection and help us recover from illness and injury. Scientists aren't completely sure why. They may have a better idea now, ...

Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed a promising new substance for targeting bacteria that cause tuberculosis. The team have produced a compound that inhibits ...

A new study shows that disrupted brain lipids play a central role in Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers found that microglia ...

The UK Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation in Pharmacogenomics (UK CERSI-PGx), led by the University of ...

It is widely known that Alzheimer's disease is mainly associated with the overproduction of β-amyloid peptides and damage ...

Plants possess an extraordinary ability to continuously generate new organs owing to these specialized cells known as stem ...

Chinese scientists have identified a key mechanism that governs the function of plant stem cells — cells that enable plants to continuously generate new leaves, stems and flowers — a finding that ...

A newly discovered neuron-released enzyme could transform pain treatment and reveal deeper secrets of how the brain learns.

Deep inside your nervous system, a tiny fault in how cells make energy can quietly change the course of a life. That hidden ...

A daily magnesium supplement alters the bacteria that produce vitamin D in the colon and could influence colorectal cancer ...