Additional severe warning signs of extremely high cholesterol include: mild to severe burning pain in your legs, hair loss on ...

When James Watson and Francis Crick described the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, the moment appeared decisive and ...

Tuberculous diaphyseal osteitis of the tibia is rare in adults. We report a case of a 26-year-old female patient with sickle ...

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

Rising in the dark and cold of a winter morning, Miescher would walk down to the banks of the Rhine to catch salmon, then ...

Cells aren’t as passive as scientists once thought—they actively create internal currents to move proteins quickly and efficiently. These “cellular winds” push materials to the front of the cell, ...

A living, synthetic cell has been made by transplanting a complete genome into a dead bacterium, bringing it back to life. The breakthrough could help synthetic biology live up to its huge, but still ...

For years, one of the most powerful weapons against certain blood cancers, called CAR-T cell therapy, has required an elaborate process: Doctors extract a patient's immune cells, ship them to a ...

Researchers in Japan pioneered reprogrammed cells 20 years ago. Now the country has given the first-ever authorizations to manufacture and sell medical products based on the technology. “We are very ...

Ms. Lacks’s family accused Novartis of profiting from her cells, which were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when she was dying of cervical cancer. By Michael Levenson The pharmaceutical ...