For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have been diagnosed from the outside in, through behavior, mood, and memory ...

A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...

Scientists have identified a new ultraviolet‑absorbing compound in microscopic algae that functions as a natural shield ...

At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining ...

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is the body’s most vital line of defense and, at the same time, is also one of modern ...

Every cell depends on proteins to function and stay healthy. These proteins are made inside the cell from amino acids, but ...

Medical science has come a long way in the last few decades. With technological advances and innovations, researchers and ...

In a landmark effort to understand how the physical structure of our DNA influences human biology, Northwestern investigators and the 4D Nucleome Project have unveiled the most detailed maps to date ...

When you take a drug, where in your body does it actually go? For most medications, scientists can make only educated guesses about the answer to this question.