Turns out jellyfish and sea anemones – among the ancient creatures with a nervous system instead of a brain – have a very similar sleeping routine to our own. A new study published in Nature ...

Researchers at Leipzig University and TU Dresden have succeeded in developing biological switches that can selectively turn ion channels on and off using light pulses. Initial applications show that ...

The Arctic ground squirrel survives conditions that would cause irreparable brain damage in almost any other mammal on the ...

Thanks to a recent study by researchers at IOCB Prague, it is now possible to monitor processes in living cells more ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

Proteomics experiments on Drosophila reveal sex-specific effects in aging, and an important role for a protein called DIP-β.

The cancer gene MYC camouflages tumours by suppressing alarm signals that normally activate the immune system. This finding ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have zeroed in on a cellular gatekeeper that may hold promise for treating abnormal protein ...

Taken together, the work shows that spaceflight can speed and then reverse blood-based aging signals through immune and ...

Researchers in Class of 1942 Professor of Chemistry Matthew D. Shoulders ' lab have uncovered a sinister hidden mechanism ...

A new study in Nature Communications reveals how immune cells rapidly shut down their response after activation, preventing ...

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