Intermittent fasting can be risky for some people, experts warn, and while it has been linked to benefits like weight loss ...

A new study has identified key gene regulators that enable some deafened animals -- including fish and lizards -- to naturally regenerate their hearing. The findings could guide future efforts to ...

Just like she's done every 24 hours for the past 80 or so straight days, Ming-Fen Ho is replenishing culture dishes with the liquid nutrients that bathe and feed—lubricate and nourish, technically—her ...

A team of Korean researchers succeeded in mass cultivating human intestinal stem cells in an environment without any ...

The Department of Defense on Wednesday awarded $9.3 million to support inclusion of more Hispanic students pursuing science, ...

Here are 10 words that entered our vocabulary this year, capturing discoveries at the cutting edge of science, elusive ...

The next year brought the breakthrough that still defines HIV treatment today: highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). HAART uses three or more drugs that work in at least two different ways.

Hiranmoy Das, Ph.D., a professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy, has been named a Fellow of the National ...

Gut microbiome composition during pregnancy has long-term effects on offspring stem cell growth and development, researchers report December 11 in the Cell Press journal Cell Stem Cell. Treating ...

New research looking at the stem cells of 'superagers' - people aged 100 or more - could make it possible for more people to live a longer and healthier life.

Both space exploration and stem cells have been at the center of major research projects, and combining the two has led to a ...