Touch—the first sense to develop in the womb—is fundamental to our bodily experience and our everyday lives. Yet, as the least studied of the five senses, it remains somewhat mysterious at the ...

A team led by HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Shan Meltzer has created a detailed, cell-by-cell map of the spinal cord that offers a new framework for understanding chronic pain and provides a powerful new ...

A recent integrative analysis of single-cell sequencing and single-cell spatial mapping of lymph node metastasis in breast ...

It infects nearly one-third of the global population, yet its microscopic size makes the parasite difficult for scientists to study. That parasite is Toxoplasma gondii, a widespread organism that ...

Breast cancer remains one of the most prevalent and life-threatening forms of cancer, impacting millions worldwide. This malignancy's heterogeneity and complexity have long posed significant ...

To further the quantitative understanding of cellular decision making, Dr. Gregory Reeves and his team in the chemical engineering department have worked to interpret how a transcription factor ...

Unlike most frontier neuroscience projects that rely primarily on state funding, this one has been built through a rare mix ...

This is the highest resolution molecular structure ever constructed of a key protein complex on the surface of the Andes ...

The jury trial for Kouri Richins, the Kamas woman accused of killing her husband and writing a children’s book about coping ...

Background Ocular chronic graft versus host disease (oGVHD) seriously affects ocular surface, which often results in corneal ...

A recent UC Santa Cruz study, published in Nature Communications scientific journal, uncovered clues in a decadeslong mystery ...

A hidden molecular chain reaction in the brain may push key cellular systems into overdrive in autism—and scientists just found a way to switch it off.