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Immune cells and pain neurons form complex partnerships to protect our bodies from pathogens, new research reveals.

The intimate link between hair follicles and wound healing is more than skin deep.

Aging cells with weakened gene regulation spuriously transcribe RNAs, but their impact on health and longevity still needs to be examined.

A battery that charges itself in salty fluids starves tumors of oxygen, helping improve some drugs treat cancer, a study finds.

A more complete understanding of nonrandom segregation will shed light on how speciation occurs.

Political activist and Nobel winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin pioneered X-ray crystallography to discover the molecular structures of penicillin and insulin.

Some of the foundational studies in the field were neither ethical by today’s standards nor replicable. But we can do better.

Modification on a high-resolution fluorescent microscopy technique allow researchers to track the precise movements of motor proteins. 

Self-contained synthetic E. coli resistant to viral infection could prove invaluable to the biotechnology industry by increasing product consistency and reducing safety concerns. 

SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers structural changes in the host cell’s DNA, which provide a molecular explanation for long COVID, a new study suggests. 

Researchers find many tumor-specific antigens form when cancer genes and transposable elements link up.

Using a 3D culture system that imitates fatty tissue, researchers developed a simpler process to study mesenchymal stem cell aging and tissue regeneration.