A tour of three systems for automating cell culture
Inducing certain brain patterns extends non-REM sleep in mice.
Patients are sidestepping clinical research and using themselves as guinea pigs to test new treatments for fatal diseases. Will they hurt themselves, or science?
Bioluminescent arcs on a deep-sea lantern shark’s dorsal side highlight its spines.
Researchers have created a molecule that helps nanoparticles evade immune attack and could improve drug delivery.
Three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are offering $3 million to scientists demonstrating excellence in biology and medical research.
Disruptions in the interaction between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA can lead to deficiencies in the mitochondrial energy-generating process, affecting fitness.
The first human trial of a treatment using induced pluripotent stem cells has received conditional approval from an institutional review board in Japan.
Protein aggregates in the brains of some people with dementia or motor neuron disease have a surprising origin.
Tuberculosis bacteria find shelter from drugs and the body’s defenses in bone marrow stem cells.