More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Millions of people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer every year. In advanced tumor diseases, cancer cells detach from the ...

In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson published a now-iconic Far Side comic entitled Cow Tools. In it, a cow stands proudly beside ...

We know more about cow’s milk than human milk. But new research about the makeup of breast milk and the factors influencing ...

For the first time, the tools to rewrite human biology are moving from speculative fiction into regulated clinics and ...

Tumor cells leaving the original tissue and settling in distant organs of the body is referred to as metastasis of the primary tumor. Since in most cases it is not the primary tumor but metastases ...

Tweaking a pattern of wound healing established millions of years ago may enable scar-free injury repair after surgery or ...

A small number of cancer cells with the ability to change their identities and behaviors appear to be a key driver of cancer progression and its ability to evolve resistance to treatment, Memorial ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

An Austrian cow named Veronika has been videoed using brooms and stick to scratch herself, in what researchers say it the ...

Scientists have discovered how exercise protects aging muscles by suppressing DEAF1, a molecule they identified as a driver of muscle decline.

A new analysis of drug trials used to approve medicines in the United States shows how far modern medicine still has to go to ...