Scientists are literally turning back the clocks in our cells, with the first drugs about to go to human trials ...

A high-fat diet does more than overload the liver with fat. New research from MIT shows that prolonged exposure to fatty ...

The extreme weight loss seen in many late-stage cancer patients, known as cachexia, is far more than a cosmetic side effect.

Hair loss and graying, the earliest visible signs of skin aging, are fundamentally driven by the functional decline of the hair follicle stem cells ...

Artificial intelligence has just redrawn the map of our genome’s control room, revealing hundreds of thousands of tiny DNA ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...

Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes. The cell-free biogenesis ...

This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.