Lab Bench to Bedside

There are times when a cell must cease its work. In an embryo, it’s when a hand must separate into fingers. In wound healing, it’s ...

When a new virus emerges that infects and sickens humans, the wheels of innovation start turning quickly in the world of health care and biomedical research. Teams ...

Across the world, an estimated 300 million people live with one or more of over 7,000 identified rare diseases. For them, their family, friends and ...

Cocaine is like a roller coaster in powder form. First, there is the intense rush of euphoria, excitement, and invincibility. Then, almost as quickly, there is the ...

In his recent book, The Body, Bill Bryson reports that according to the Royal Society of Chemistry, the materials needed to build a human would ...

With a five-year survival rate of less than 5%, a type of pancreatic cancer called pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is an urgent research priority. Now a ...

With obesity, good advice only goes so far. What’s good for one person hasn’t turned out to be good for all, and it’s left patients and physicians adrift. ...

Like a robot vacuum for your brain, immune cells called microglia move around and hoover up the neuro-equivalent of crumbs and dirt. But for the ...

If Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases teamed up to mingle their most unpleasant features, the result might look a lot like Lewy body dementia – a progressive, incurable and ...

Within each of the body’s tiny cells are dozens to tens of dozens of even tinier mitochondria. These organelles (“little organs”) convert fuel from the ...