Laertis Ikonomou, PhD, associate professor of oral biology, is the principal investigator of a two-year, $435,167 R21 grant ...

Scientists found multipotent stem cells in scarlet sea anemones, explaining their regenerative abilities and potentially ...

Antibiotic resistance has become one of the most pressing threats to global health. Infections once treatable with a simple ...

How do cells know what they should become as the body develops? Biological development depends crucially on spatial patterns: ...

Scientists have sought to capture the first days of how a person comes to be, by recreating those early moments in a lab via ...

New research shows fat buildup disables brain’s immune defenses in Alzheimer’s. A mouse treatment cleared plaques in just one week.

After just 32 days of spaceflight, stem cells that play a vital role in blood and immune system health showed signs of accelerated aging. reading time 3 minutes Spaceflight pushes the human body to ...

A research team from Umeå University, Sweden, in collaboration with Ghent University, Belgium, has made a groundbreaking discovery about how the body's first immune defense, neutrophils, orchestrate ...

Place cells are specialized neurons in a brain region known as the hippocampus, which have been found to fire when animals ...

The first season finale reaffirms that our quest to dominate life, and other lifeforms, will likely be our undoing.

Cambridge scientists built a two-part cancer drug that activates only in tumors with high enzyme levels, showing promise in ...