Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...

The human microbiome, the diverse microbial community residing within and on the human body, has garnered significant ...

A major new initiative involving Leicester experts aims to redefine human-based research models for greater understanding of disease and the acceleration of new medicines ...

The human small intestine absorbs nutrients while protecting us from potentially harmful microbes. One of the cell types that ...

Synaptic plasticity—the brain's ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning—is one of the neural ...

Researchers at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine recently made an important advance in neurodegenerative disease ...

Unstable proteins are the main drivers of many different heritable diseases, according to a new study, including genetic disorders responsible for the formation of cataracts, and different types of ...

Sickle cell disease is associated with chronic oxidative stress, hemolysis, inflammation, and progressive multi--organ injury, including significant cardiopulmonary complications. Mitochondrial ...

Scarring is a key feature of chronic kidney disease. Now, University of Connecticut researchers report in Kidney ...

Phase 1 Clinical Trial Met All Primary and Secondary Endpoints and Demonstrated Positive Safety, Pharmacokinetics, and ...