Cancer treatment has come a long way, but many of today's therapies still come with steep costs: not just financial, but ...

Ebola is one of the nasty viruses that can hide in the body even after a patient recovers and tests negative. It can reemerge ...

Researchers have built a 3D human blood-brain barrier in the lab and discovered a key role of brain pericytes in cerebral ...

Harvard Medical School researchers are designing next-gen robots that can flex, contract, and grow like human beings.

Research groups around the world are working to find ways to implant or grow real biological teeth in a human jaw.

Scientists at Rice University have engineered living cells to light up like tiny beacons, revealing protein changes in real ...

The interior of a cell is packed with proteins and nucleic acids, such as RNA, all of which need to perform specific ...

A Montgomery pastor who ministers in Alabama prisons told state lawmakers Wednesday that he sees incarcerated men who are ...

The immune system has a tough job: When a tiny virus invades one of our cells, that cell must detect it and, within minutes, ...

A new documentary streaming online is putting Alabama’s prison system in the spotlight. It's called " The Alabama Solution ," ...

Now the marketers of dietary supplements have entered the field by attaching stem cell-related claims to the ads and ...

Inside a research lab nestled in the scenic Swiss town of Vevey, scientists are keeping small clusters of human brain cells ...