Some blood cancers move with eerie patience. A patient can feel well for years, their blood counts looking steady, their ...

Discovery that astrocyte networks shrink and reroute after a loss of sensory signals suggests they may be shaped by experience.

Researchers mapped brain-wide astrocyte networks that link distant regions, proving these "support cells" have their own long-range signaling system.

With grants of up to $5 million, AEA Innovate is enabling university researchers to work alongside industry partners to ...

Tea bags could be leaching billions of plastic particles into every cup – sparking fears of potential health risks.

Cells contain a wealth of information about health and disease, but extracting that data reliably from microscope images remains a major challenge. Many important differences between healthy and ...

At the 2026 BiOS conference in San Francisco, researchers presented a biosensing platform aimed at improving how living cells and tissues are monitored during drug bioprocessing. Known as TissueSense, ...

Cells constantly probe their environments, searching for physical cues that guide their behavior. And yet a cell's response ...

Cells long thought to play a secondary role in brain function build their own far-reaching connections, according to a new ...

The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is a key site for opioid actions, and emerging evidence suggests that pain states and opioid experience both induce transcriptional, molecular, and circuit adaptations ...

Working on human pus in a medieval castle, Miescher discovered a substance that would eventually unlock our understanding of ...