Scott Nelson, left, and Nathaniel Kallmyer work in the laboratory of Zymosense, a startup company based in the Iowa State ...

Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent public health challenges worldwide, driven by changes in the brain that ...

Chinese scientists have identified a key mechanism that governs the function of plant stem cells — cells that enable plants ...

Pregnant women should be cautious about eating unripe papaya. Scientific studies show its latex can cause uterine ...

Researchers have identified how a single mutation in the GPX4 enzyme causes neurons to undergo ferroptosis, leading to severe early-onset dementia.

Your gut microbes play a major role in how well you absorb nutrients, explaining why identical diets produce very different results.

Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed a promising new substance for targeting ...

Monitoring gene activity in the brain just got a major upgrade. Rice University bioengineers ...

Tracking how genes switch on and off in the brain is essential for understanding many neurological diseases, yet the tools to ...

By Priyanjana Pramanik, MSc. Common blood test results may offer an early clue to bone loss, suggesting that alkaline ...

"Most of the studies on nicotine addiction traditionally focus on neurons, while neglecting the role of glial cells. Our innovative study demonstrates that astrocytes interact with neurons within the ...

The evidence was found in the DNA of coffee lovers.