Ajit Prakash is a postdoctoral researcher in biochemist Sharon Campbell’s group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...

If you’re confused about the growing landscape of weight loss drugs, here is a concise breakdown of their mechanisms, ...

When an axolotl loses a leg, it grows back. Bone, muscle, nerves, skin, even the individual digits return in roughly the ...

Daraxonrasib, a new pancreatic cancer drug, cut the risk of death by 60% in a Phase 3 trial. A doctor explains how it works, ...

Some proteins quietly keep everything running. They do not make headlines, but without them, the body's most important ...

The therapeutic significance of a psychedelic session depends in part on the intensity of the mystical experience it produces ...

A new single‑cell method, CIPHER‑seq, measures RNA and proteins together to reveal real‑time cytokine signaling.

A study published in Cell Research advances a central idea in stem cell biology by identifying a checkpoint that controls the ...

After a decade-long quest to fill a major gap in basic biology, UChicago scientists have built a complete map of how cells ...

The tumor begins before birth. Somewhere in the developing fetus, neural crest cells that should have matured into adrenal tissue or sympathetic ganglia take a wrong turn, and a child is born ...

This important study investigates the self-assembly activity of all 109 human death-fold domains. The data collected using advanced microscopy and distributed amphifluoric FRET-based flow cytometry ...

T cell activation—the process by which these key immune defenders recognize threats and mobilize against them—depends on exquisitely timed molecular signals. Now researchers have captured one of the ...