Collagen IV provides crucial structural support for cells and tissues, but it’s unstable at body temperature. Researchers now ...

Despite spanning about three billion base pairs, the human genome is wrapped up tight in a highly organized fashion in the nucleus. This coordinated structure, in part, enables the cell to regulate ...

How does the axolotl’s body know to regenerate a limb at the severed site and not a tail or another tissue? This is in part due to positional memory —the spatial identity assigned to adult cells ...

After years of debate, scientists provided new evidence for the lifelong birth of human brain cells, which may inform future ...

A specially designed microbe cuts dietary methylmercury levels in pregnant mice, signaling the potential for a new tool for ...

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Proteins involved in neuroinflammation found in the cerebrospinal fluid could help researchers better diagnose and treat ...

Cell wall components from Borrelia burgdorferi lingered in the mouse liver for weeks, suggesting new therapeutic avenues for ...

By focusing on twins and patients with lupus and Parkinson’s disease, a Mexican consortium is generating critical data to ...

Adam Haar Horowitz is the first to admit that whispering to strangers as they fall asleep “seems a little creepy.” He’d been mulling over the idea with fellow MIT master’s student Ishaan Grover a few ...