Protons, the positively charged particles that help build every atom in our bodies, are starting to look less like classical ...

Cutting calories has long been linked to longer life in lab animals, but scientists are now tracing that effect down to the ...

A National Taiwan University study reveals how intracellular bacteria co-opt mitochondrial transporters to evade immune ...

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading pathogens' DNA and chop it up to ...

Cells experience many different types of stress, such as starvation or stress caused by too much salt or too high a temperature. Insulin signals respond to such stress signals by sending the protein ...

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's ...

Do you want to live for ever? Me neither, although the idea of enhancing my healthspan – staying healthy for as long as I can ...