In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

The immune systems of cancer patients are highly disrupted, with those who have a higher number of immune cells in their blood having a better survival rate, finds a new study that uses a pioneering ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University, led by Prof. Illana Gozes, examined the effects of different mutations in the ADNP protein, which is essential for normal brain development and aging, on the brain ...

Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

A new lawsuit claims that a hairstylist developed bladder cancer from working with a dye chemical for decades. The answer: quite possibly. Even more intriguing, the dye itself is harmless—but its ...

Scientists found a genetic mutation in Italy’s Apennine brown bears that reduces energy production and increases harmful ...

The X-Men have always strived to be creative and fight expected superhero tropes; for this reason, some of their most ...

The following column was originally published May 28, 2022. Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase in life ...

Researchers have proven that antibiotic-resistant strains of a harmful bacteria thrive in a diabetic infection environment.

Phase I clinical trials are the first step in testing a new treatment or combination of treatments. These trials often ...

More Americans may have had bird flu without suffering any symptoms, a new study finds. That could allow the virus to mutate into something more dangerous.

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...