Viruses and their hosts—whether bacteria, animals, or humans—are locked in a constant evolutionary arms race. Cells evolve ...

When it comes to the hardest-working organs, the liver plays a key role. From working as a natural detoxifier to filtering ...

A research team at Sejong University's Plant Immunity Laboratory, led by Professor Nam-Soo Jwa, has uncovered an important ...

Pneumonia is a disease that burdens the health care system with more than 1.2 million emergency room visits each year and ...

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

A virus carried by 95% of adults from childhood may trigger bladder cancer decades later by damaging cells during immune ...

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence »Balance of the Microverse« at the University of Jena and the Leibniz-HKI, ...

Why do nerve cells die in dementia - and can this process be slowed down? Researchers from the Technical University of Munich ...

The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Heersink ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising way the brain switches pain on, revealing that neurons can release an enzyme outside the cell that activates pain signals without disrupting normal movement or ...

While there are several bacteria and viruses causing pneumonia, the research team looked specifically at Streptococcus pneumoniae.