Why do some joints remain chronically inflamed in osteoarthritis and other rheumatic diseases? Researchers have taken an ...
The ability to precisely adjust the expression of genes inside the human body—ramping up protective ones and tamping down ...
Alcohol-related liver disease may trap damaged liver cells in a regenerative limbo, preventing the organ from rebuilding ...
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 ...
Scientists from Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco and Stanford University, in collaboration with Biohub, have unveiled a ...
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 ...
Researchers found that greater age-related cognitive decline was associated with more dysfunctional oligodendrocytes, reduced ...
From constructing cell-like systems to creating genomes from scratch, synthetic biology is having a moment. What will it mean ...
Acid ceramidase deficiency causes altered sphingolipid signaling and promotes disease phenotype(s) in a lysosomal storage ...
Some 50,000 years ago, modern humans wandered into Ice Age Europe. The continent was new to us Homo sapiens, but not for beings of our general kind. Neanderthals and their ancestors had been living ...