“Encouragingly, the findings suggest that even a modest amount of walking each day, around 5,000 steps, is linked to a slower build-up of tau protein in the brain, one of the key drivers of ...

How do stem cells know what to become? Nearly three decades after scientists isolated the first human embryonic stem cells, researchers are still working hard to understand precisely how a single, ...

By electrically stimulating macrophages, scientists at Trinity College Dublin have found a way to calm inflammation and ...

Researchers discover that Baker’s yeast can survive Martian conditions, offering insights for astrobiology and future space exploration.

The bacterium known as Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an unwelcome visitor in the human body. Serious infections can result when a ...

A massive genetic study found that naturally lower cholesterol is linked to a dramatically reduced risk of dementia. The ...

Drugs to treat inflammatory and autoimmune diseases - such as asthma, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis or Chrousos syndrome - ...

Dr. Steven P. Romberger, Edward J. Smerek Chair of Mathematics, the Sciences, and Technology and associate professor of ...

The activation and deactivation of apoptosis is a promising field of research in basic biomedical research. The team led by Prof. Franz Hagn from the Chair of Structural Membrane Biochemistry at the ...

Scientists have discovered a tardigrade protein, Dsup, that protects DNA from damage and may enhance human cellular resilience under extreme stress conditions.

Spiders’ webs come in all shapes and sizes, from funnel webs to sheet webs and the classic orb web – the sort you imagine for ...

A new study led by the University of Bristol, involving more than one million participants, has found that having lower cholesterol levels may reduce the risk of developing dementia. The study, led by ...