People need to sleep, and sleep deprivation can cause many changes in the brain. But we have a poor understanding of why sleep is so crucial. New research has examined a fruit fly model to assess how ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have identified a previously unknown system inside cells that works like ...

Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the brain's ...

Researchers from Brown University and their collaborators have developed a new way to measure the properties of cells—an ...

Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a ...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic condition that causes digestive issues, gut pain, and bloating, and women are far more likely to experience IBS than men. Researchers may have now found an ...

In about one out of every 1,000 pregnancies, the neural tube, a key nervous system structure, fails to close properly.

Senescent cells walk a tightrope, risking cell death with high levels of iron and other damaging agents, but compensating for this by overproducing a protective protein, GPX4, which staves off death.

Circulating tumor cells were first described in 1869 by Thomas Ashworth, an Australian pathologist who observed them in a peripheral blood sample taken from a patient with metastatic cancer. 1 They ...

Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...