There's a sensation that you experience -- near a plane taking off or a speaker bank at a concert -- from a sound so total ...

The body's cells respond to stress -- toxins, mutations, starvation or other assaults -- by pausing normal functions to focus on conserving energy, repairing damaged components and boosting defenses.

Anxiety and obesity are both rising around the world, and scientists have long suspected that these two conditions might be ...

Researchers have shed new light on how tissues in the body are repaired following the damage and premature death of tissue cells. As our bodies grow and develop, cells naturally die off where they ...

During infections, the immune system needs to distinguish foreign antigens that are expressed by invading bacteria and viruses from self-antigens that are expressed by cells of the body.

That’s where Yale’s new “magic carpet” comes in. Developed by Professor Yimin Luo and her team, this new system provides ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests.

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed a blood test capable of detecting cancers, the ways cancer resists treatments ...