Northwestern Medicine scientists led by Joseph Bass, MD, Ph.D., the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Endocrinology and ...

Weight loss is notoriously hard to maintain. Within a few years most people regain the pounds they initially lose, whether ...

The genetic network of BTB zinc finger transcription factors and Eip93F is crucial for Kenyon cell identity regulation and neuronal function acquisition in the construction of Drosophila mushroom ...

The human body is a dynamic place. Blood pumps, spinal fluid flows, oxygen comes in and carbon dioxide goes out. Deeper still, charged molecules pass through cell walls, quietly keeping the body's ...

Japan has approved ground-breaking stem-cell treatments for Parkinson's and severe heart failure, one of the manufacturers ...

MIT engineers developed “mini livers” that could be injected into the body and take over the functions of a failing liver.

Our immune system relies on T cells to fight infections. But T cells don't just show up and react—first, they train, get a ...

Building functional human muscle in the laboratory has long been a goal of regenerative medicine, but one stubborn obstacle remains: real muscle is not just a mass of cells. Its strength and function ...

A single genetic “switch” may be the secret to how the body’s cleanup crew grows up and keeps our organs running smoothly.

Today, scientists estimate that between seven and ten million people worldwide live with Parkinson’s disease. Even though the disease has been studied for many decades, doctors still do not fully ...

Large protein machines in the body carry out many of the cell's most essential tasks, from energy production to the ...

Consuming iron-rich foods, alongside strategies that optimise iron absorption, can significantly prevent and manage iron deficiency.