The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Midbrain neurons are susceptible to energy shortages as they age, which may explain their degeneration in Parkinson’s disease ...

Renowned molecular biologist Yunsun Nam, Ph.D., Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics and the Doris and ...

A new Dartmouth study opens new avenues for understanding—and potentially manipulating—how cells decide to live or die.

Until recently, few outside the specialised world of ageing science had ever heard of senescent cells, the so-called “zombie cells”. These cells are located in organs and tissues throughout our bodies ...

Only 1 in 3 patients in an ER for sickle cell crisis receive opioid painkillers within the first hour as treatment guidelines recommend, researchers reported Saturday in Orlando at an American Society ...

University of California San Diego alumnus Fred Ramsdell will be presented the Nobel Prize by the King of Sweden on Dec. 10 in Stockholm, Sweden. But getting the news about the life-changing award ...

Bedford ‘s Nicole Steele, a biochemistry and molecular biology major at Clark University, is part of a team working with the ...

Agios Pharmaceuticals AGIO announced that the FDA has not yet given its decision related to the company’s supplemental new ...

The study also looked at how microplastics might make Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s worse. For Alzheimer’s, they may increase ...

Dopamine neurons in a part of the brain called the midbrain may, with aging, be increasingly susceptible to a vicious spiral of decline driven by fuel shortages, according to a study led by Weill ...

A new study reveals five mechanisms by which microplastics can trigger inflammation and cause damage in the brain.