Pancreas development in pigs resembles humans much more closely than does the established mouse model. An international team ...

New study reveals how human astroviruses bind to humans cells and paves the way for new therapies and vaccines ...

Human astroviruses are a leading viral cause of the stomach bug-think vomiting, diarrhea, and fever. It often impacts young ...

A naturally occurring gene called Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can actually make new, functioning heart cells and help the heart repair itself from injury, including a ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can ...

A research team led by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and collaborating with the Biomedical Research ...

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

An early-stage study has found that a common chemotherapy drug disrupts lymphatic cells in the tissue surrounding the brain.

Cancer treatment has always been a balancing act—hit the tumor hard enough to kill it, but not so hard that the patient ...

The scientists tested different methods to see which encouraged the most tissue growth. They found that treating the seaweed ...

Advances in genome editing are transforming the treatment for rare genetic diseases, as seen in the case of seven-month-old ...

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed ...