Advances in genetic engineering have enabled researchers to seek ways to program new life. But has synthetic biology actually ...

Researchers have identified a new potential weapon against Alzheimer’s: blocking a protein called PTP1B. In mice, this approach boosted memory and helped brain immune cells clear harmful plaque ...

Alzheimer's disease is often described in numbers, with millions of people affected, cases rising quickly, and costs reaching into the trillions. For ...

Just as the human body relies on organs such as the heart or liver for essential functions, cells depend on their own tiny ...

Squeeze a cell once and it barely flinches. Squeeze it again and again in short bursts, and something changes: a protein ...

Short-term nutritional state can reshape T cell metabolism, with post-meal lipid metabolism enhancing T cell metabolic ...

Mini models of the uterus lining give insight into mystery of how it is shed without scarring.

A team led by Professor Ed X. Wu and Dr. Alex T. L. Leong has achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain ...

When the brain encodes and consolidates memories, it often connects related experiences that happened in different places and ...