A new study reveals that the gut microbiome is way more complex than people might think. A virus in it may hold the key to ...

Findings support model in which accelerated biological aging of mammary epithelia may underpin breast cancer susceptibility ...

Mitochondria don’t just generate energy—they also carefully organize their own DNA in a surprisingly elegant way. Scientists have discovered that a long-overlooked phenomenon called “mitochondrial ...

Researchers at the University of California at Irvine have found that injections of certain polyunsaturated fatty acids can ...

The Center for Disease Control estimates nearly 50% of the U.S. population has either prediabetes (38%) or type 2 diabetes (T2D). Vitamin D deficiency is common in individuals with T2D with a ...

New analytical methods developed at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have increased our understanding of how bacteria manage DNA. The methods enabled researchers to uncover ...

Shifting gears somewhat, in 2008 Agre began a 15-year run as director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, a ...

Just a few years ago, Daniel Chen, M.D., Ph.D., was spending his spare time in his backyard, sketching out designs for new ...

Animal communication can look wildly different—flashing lights, chirping calls, croaking songs and elaborate dances. But new ...

New research shows how certain orphan noncoding RNA — oncRNA — can be predictable enough to be a ‘bar code’ identifying ...

How does the neural tube close? A new study uses physics-based modeling to reveal the actin "purse-string" mechanism and cellular coordination that prevents spina bifida.

When the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the devastation seemed unimaginable. Yet, against all odds, ...