Life’s most indispensable molecules are not the serene, unchanging fixtures they might appear to be. Even the proteins that ...

A UK-led international clinical trial is recruiting 280 patients to see if the technique to remove cancerous cells could ...

Mitochondria are like subcontractors that do jobs for your cells. In fact, scientists believe these organelles were once ...

Singapore has one of the highest life expectancies in the world, yet many individuals spend almost a decade in poor health ...

Estrogen is known as an important hormone, and it can control many functions by regulating the activity of hundreds of genes.

Self-medicating with vitamin B12 without a doctor’s guidance is not a good idea. Even though B12 is water-soluble (meaning excess amounts are usually flushed out in urine), taking more than your body ...

A Cedars-Sinai study has identified a previously unknown role for astrocyte cells in how the brain responds to damage and ...

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

Unlike our organs, cell organelles such as mitochondria are not fixed in place, but when, where, how, and why organelles move ...

A small tweak to mitochondrial energy production led to big gains in health and longevity. Mice engineered to boost a protein that helps mitochondria work more efficiently lived longer and showed ...

Unlike our organs, cell organelles such as mitochondria are not fixed in place, but when, where, how, and why organelles move ...

Cedars-Sinai investigators have discovered a healing mechanism that could one day be harnessed to help treat patients with ...