Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are ...

A new international study has identified special brain cells that help protect memory and slow Alzheimer’s, offering fresh ...

As Washington rolls out the red carpet today for the former al-Qaeda chieftain and now Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, ...

The devastating retrovirus HTLV-1 has eluded scientists for decades. Overcoming chronic funding and other challenges, ...

A Japanese-led research team has developed AUN, a groundbreaking immune-independent bacterial cancer therapy that uses two ...

I just took this common pain medication...and I was today years old when I learned we don't actually know how it works. 😳 ...

Water bears survive cosmic radiation with one DNA-protecting protein, Dsup. Learning how could help protect humans against ...

Gray hair in mice signals successful elimination of cancer-prone stem cells. Study offers clues about melanoma risk in humans ...

Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature from the earliest embryonic and fetal stages until adulthood, knowledge that ...

A protein involved with cell death can be manipulated to slow or reverse tumor growth, a pair of new studies in mice found.

The team that produced medical guidelines for physicians caring for patients with chronic illness was part of federal ...

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...