There are "costs of life" that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...

Combined experimental and theoretical tools that include biochemical and molecular biology approaches, genome, transcriptome, and proteome analyses, and comparative methods, have advanced our ...

After decades of fundamental scientific and drug discovery research, Alzheimer's disease has remained inscrutable and incurable, with a bare minimum of therapeutic progress. But in a new review ...

Researchers have for the first time identified degeneration-associated “molecular markers” —observable changes in cells and their gene-regulating networks—that are shared by several forms of dementia ...

Neurodegenerative disorders are pressing global health challenges that stem from progressive neuronal dysfunction and loss. While the central roles of ...

Researchers have genetically profiled nearly 200,000 cells from lungs, mapping their precise locations in tissue to discover an unexpected new immune niche in our airways The most comprehensive lung ...

The field of sepsis research has advanced significantly in recent years, particularly regarding the interplay between immune responses and multiple forms of ...

Hair loss and graying, the earliest visible hallmarks of skin aging, result from the functional decline of hair follicle stem ...

Laboratory experiments with cancer cells reveal two ways in which tumors evade drugs designed to starve and kill them, a new study shows. While chemotherapies successfully treat cancers and extend ...