MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

Tattoo ink stays with you for life. Researchers are now asking how these pigments interact with the immune system and whether ...

Placozoa are among the simplest animals in the world. They were initially discovered living on the walls of aquariums in a ...

As people age, their immune system function declines. T cell populations become smaller and can't react to pathogens as ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

A new study explains how pancreatic tumors use a sugar coating to hide from the immune system and shows that a newly developed antibody can restore immune responses in mice. Pancreatic cancer remains ...

Study finds ultrathin tubes connecting brain cells that transport Alzheimer's proteins. The network changes months before ...

Some experts think “xenobot” cells that reorganize themselves after death signify a form of consciousness—while others ...