Month: July 2013

We humans can remember events in our lives that happened years ago, with those memories…

Smoking is a well-known risk factor for subsequent alcohol abuse, but the mechanisms underlying this…

The endoplasmic reticulum is the protein-making factory within cells consisting of tightly stacked sheets of…

New research concludes that the absence of mortality does not always indicate functional integrity.

To power research into a wide range of diseases, more than 900 genes in mice…

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have determined the orbital motion of two distinct populations…

A new study provides a case study of a simple action that can reduce healthcare…

Neurobiologists have shown that insect limbs can move without muscles — a finding that may…

For more than 125 years, scientists have been peering through microscopes, carefully watching cells divide….

Genes linked to chronic inflammation in asthma may be more active in people who are…