A Cedars-Sinai study has identified a previously unknown role for astrocyte cells in how the brain responds to damage and ...

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Triglia discusses her research at the intersection of genetics, epigenetics, single-cell genomics and computational biology.

Tears seem simple, but the tiny glands that produce them are among the least understood organs in the human body. By growing ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already reached a surprising level of complexity. At that time lived the last universal ...

A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing ...

Hyundai has deployed a fleet of heavy-duty fuel-cell trucks while Toyota plans to convert Class 8 heavy-duty trucks operating out of the Port of Long Beach to its latest generation of hydrogen power.

The human biology major will provide students with a broad biological understanding of our species, from molecules, genes, and cells to tissues, organ systems and organism/environment interactions.

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...

I’d love to read a creepy science fiction story where people dissolve. I asked my friend Anders Omsland if that could happen. He’s a biomedical researcher at Washington State University. He told me a ...