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Researchers generate pluripotent stem cells from two endangered species in hopes of learning more about the near-extinct animals.

Quantum dots, typically used in imaging, also relay temperature changes within a cell.

What does a normally aging brain look like? Are diseases of aging such as Alzheimer’s inevitable?

Researchers and pharma companies have tried to attack this disease by reducing amyloid plaques, but inflammation may be the real culprit.

Philippa “Pippa” Marrack has made some unanticipated discoveries about how the immune system functions in health and disease.

Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University. Age: 28

Tips for creating a science video or website.

Introducing the winners of our second annual "Labbies" awards

Editor’s Choice in Developmental Biology

When it comes to studying cephalopod brains and behavior, it helps to have a philosopher around.

Have researchers found the seat of urination control in a primitive brain region?

A veterinary vaccine spawned products that could clean the HIV virus from blood supplies.