Texas is currently facing a surge in Cyclospora infections, a parasite known to cause severe gastrointestinal distress. Other ...

The gene that creates the human body has been identified. In a breakthrough that could help explain why so many pregnancies fail, scientists at the University of Cambridge showed ...

Researchers at the University of Münster and Ruhr University Bochum have demonstrated for the first time in real time that the body's own defense cells use catecholamines—neurotransmitters such as ...

Leonie Schön's Lamellipodium Art blends medicine and art, turning microscopic images of cells and tissues into striking ...

Engineers have developed a new way to monitor how tiny lab-grown human heart tissues beat—by effectively "listening" to the ...

We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human ...

A facility built for a shortage “These aren’t your standard farm pigs. Millions of dollars have been spent to create this ...

Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...

We’re just beginning to decode this faint optical “signature of life” and what it could reveal about health, disease, and the ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have found a key to developing a vaccine against one of humankind’s oldest ...

Producing follicles isn’t the only task for ovaries, new research suggests. (Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library/Getty ...