A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how ...

Some lung cancers manage to overcome a targeted drug therapy despite it showing initial success. Yale researchers have now ...

Purple carrots contain anthocyanins that may support your eye and skin health, slow aging, protect against neurodegenerative ...

Taking an audience of hundreds on a tour around the body, seven speakers at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory's ...

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) exhibits a degree of resistance to mutagenesis under genotoxic stress, and this study on the mitochondrial Transcription Factor A (TFAM) presents valuable data concerning the ...

The earliest known account of a circadian cycle dates back to the fourth century B.C. when a Greek scholar, Theophrastus, wrote about a tree whose leaves closed at night and opened in the morning.

When human cells lack oxygen, they must react. Without oxygen, the metabolism can hardly generate energy, and many vital ...

For example, naïve T cells increase in size before undergoing a burst of proliferation, while liver and fat cells enlarge or contract in response to nutrient availability. In these cases, size changes ...

Female and male brains are very similar, but on the level of molecular mechanisms, clear sex differences emerge, revealing paths to develop targeted drugs.

At the 2025 Society for Neuroscience meeting, scientists discussed the adverse side effects of GLP-1 agonists and new ...