A low-oxygen environment — similar to the thin air found at Mount Everest base camp — can protect the brain and restore ...

The research, done in mice and in human cells, shows that a protein called STUB1 restrains the immune system’s elite ...

Nearly 200 new medical and dental students donned white coats and celebrated the start of their educational journeys at ...

A few limited clinical trials of lithium for Alzheimer’s disease have shown some efficacy, but the lithium compounds they ...

Findings, based on mouse studies, could pave the way for more effective cancer treatments ...

The Master of Medical Sciences in Immunology program is designed for students with a strong undergraduate biology background and an interest in medicine or fundamental research, as well as academic ...

The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences has been awarded to five scientists for the discovery and characterization of the hormone glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1 — findings that subsequently ...

In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long endeavor reached fruition in the form of a new treatment, CASGEVY, approved by ...

The ubiquity of love across societies and its endurance across millennia is likely rooted in something basic and primal to human nature, Schwartz and Olds say. While it’s unclear whether being head ...

At a glance: Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor to the massive Indo-European language family. The population ...

At a glance: Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though patients are born with the mutation. Analyses reveal that the ...