Jonas Salk quietly built the polio vaccine through rigorous, methodical work in Pittsburgh: treating patients, refinin ...

Our genes contain all the instructions our body needs to function, but their expression must be finely regulated to guarantee that each cell performs its role optimally. This is where DNA and RNA ...

Shedding light on what determines how cells become what they are meant to be-nerves, bone, muscles, etc.-can also help researchers understand how diseases develop when these biological programs break ...

Morphoceuticals is a biotechnology company that surveys the body’s nonneural bioelectric signaling networks. These networks, which enable disparate cells to serve collective purposes, constitute the ...

The Warburg effect describes how cancer cells switch from oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis even in oxygen-rich ...

A decline in the expression of the epigenetic regulator Setd8 in neural stem cells (NSCs) during early adulthood leads to chromatin condensation and reduced gene expression, suppressing NSC ...

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During ...

Different cell types typically express unique genes to help them differentiate into their assigned roles—skin cells express genes for skin while liver cells express genes for liver and so on. However, ...