When you think "parasite," you might think of leeches or some nasty tape worm, but there are some that can live inside your ...

A collaborative team of four professors and several graduate students from the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemical ...

Lysosomes are membrane-bound organelles whose acidic lumen (pH 4.5–5.0) is required for degradation. This luminal acidity is ...

To ensure our bodies function correctly, the cells that compose them must operate properly. Imagine a cell as a bustling city ...

Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

The diet has been linked to weight loss, longer life span and even a lower risk of cancer - in mice. What about humans?

A new twist on two-photon polymerization has been used to deliver objects, including lasers and an elephant, directly into ...

Of all the types of breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive and lacks specific therapies.

Scientists have transformed enigmatic cell structures, called vaults, into storage units for messenger-RNA molecules made in ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

One of the most fundamental ideas in physics is that the disorder of the universe, also known as entropy, is constantly increasing. But, life’s inherent chemical makeup has been hacking the disorder ...