The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea.

Gene therapy is at the cutting edge of medicine, with exciting new products being developed and used to treat a wide variety ...

For neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, treatment options are scant. New research by Stanford ...

Researchers developed a biomimetic nanovesicle that crosses the blood-brain barrier, degrades DNA repair proteins, and ...

Experiments in fruit fly larvae show that epidermal cells can communicate with sensory neurons to drive responses to pain.

At the intersection of radiation and precision, Novartis, Bayer, AstraZeneca and more hope to cash in on a ...

Scientists have developed a pig fat cell line that promises efficient, scalable and consistent cultivated meat production, ...

The authors confirm that telomeres in telomerase-positive cells terminate with 5'-ATC in a Pot1-dependent manner, and demonstrate that this principle holds true in telomerase-negative ALT cells as ...

A new model of tiny human ovary organoids, or ovaroids, has been developed from stem cells, according to research presented ...

Eukaryogenesis occurred suddenly, driven by the growing length of genes and the limitations on producing longer proteins. An ...