A new study of 30,000 adults found that those who volunteered or offered informal help regularly had 15 to 20 percent less age-related cognitive decline. People who spent around two to four hours a ...

Spending a few hours a week helping others may slow the aging of the brain. Researchers found that both formal volunteering ...

Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...

Stem-cell models provide evidence that viral DNA sequences that entered the human genome in the past were repurposed to aid early stages of embryonic development. Sherif Khodeer is in the Department ...