Credit: Stock Age-related oligodendrocyte dysfunction may contribute to cognitive decline by disrupting myelin and large ...

Brain diseases, including dementia, have long been studied using experimental animals such as mice. However, differences ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Northwestern University $30 million over five years to establish a new ...

Scientists from Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco and Stanford University, in collaboration with Biohub, have unveiled a ...

Scientists found a way to convert brain cells called astrocytes into neurons. In theory, this could replenish neurons lost in ...

The most encouraging results came from studies in mice with damaged retinal blood vessels. When the lab-grown human cells ...

Natural killer (NK) cells eliminate target cells through antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC), initiated by ...

From constructing cell-like systems to creating genomes from scratch, synthetic biology is having a moment. What will it mean ...

In a new study, Mass General Brigham researchers explore the causes of immune aging, a barrier to successful cancer ...

From red blood cells to neurons, discover how trillions of microscopic cells work together to build and maintain the human body.Wikimedia Commons The human body is an extraordinary feat of biological ...

Scientists have produced the most comprehensive molecular atlas ever built of how chemicals in the environment interact with the human body — and discovered that the best predictor of a substance's ...