Healthy mice are born from germ cell precursors grown in vitro.
Healthy mice are born from germ cell precursors grown in vitro.
The Nobel Prize winner who discovered the gene that encodes the major histocompatibility complex passes away at age 90.
The addictive component of cigarettes saves dopamine neurons from a Parkinson's-like decline, providing a new avenue for potential treatment.
Pro-evolution bumper stickers and emblems are being removed from the cars of biologists in Florida.
While gut microbiota appear to have both positive and negative impacts on our health, in the guts of healthy, lean individuals, the good outweighs the bad. Gut bacteria, most of which reside in the large intestine, process many otherwise indigest
Sequencing the DNA of individual neurons is a way to dissect the genes underlying major neurological and psychological disorders.
Gut bacteria that feed on healthy food appear to amplify the nutritional benefits of those foods. However, they also appear to amplify the undesirable effects of unhealthy food. Here are a few examples. Read the full story.
For more than 100 years, pathologists have observed cancer cells engulfing other live cells, but scientists are only now beginning to understand how it happens and what it means for tumorigenesis.