Zhijian “James” Chen received this year’s Albert Lasker Award for discovering cGAS, an enzyme which scopes out DNA-based ...

A new study employs a multiomic approach to study how cytomegalovirus activation impacts breast milk bioactive factors and ...

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F rom fruit flies that survive a mere two weeks to the giant tortoises of the tropics that can live for nearly 200 years, ...

For years, neuroscience research overlooked female subjects, creating a significant bias. Today, researchers actively rebalance the scales with more inclusive and diverse studies. The Dynamic Lives of ...

Cells send electrical impulses throughout the body, but electrophysiologists struggled to tune into these signals until the ...

As the famed British naturalist David Attenborough noted, “In our hands now lies not only our own future but that of all ...

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ABOVE: Protein misfolding plays an important role in many neurodegenerative disorders. © istock.com, Eoneren. W hen Julie ...

In the middle of the 20th century, science disciplines collided and set the stage for a technology that changed cell research ...