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Scientists have discovered how aging blood stem cells acquire mutations that give them a growth edge, creating fertile ground for the development of clonol hematopoiesis, a condition that dramatically ...

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

Every organ in our body contains a small number of adult stem cells that are specific to its niche. These cells act like a ...

Physicists from the Universities of Bayreuth and Grenoble have discovered a new mechanism of cell mobility. Their findings ...

High cholesterol can lead to a range of health problems, including heart disease and makes strokes and heart attacks more likely, there are also few warning signs ...

New research zeroes in on a unique group of immune cells that could transform how we treat—and possibly prevent—severe food allergies like peanut and shellfish.

Bacteria naturally present in the human intestine (known as the gut microbiota) can transform cholesterol-derived bile acids into powerful metabolites that strengthen anti-cancer immunity by blocking ...

The liver is the body’s control tower for metabolism, powering vital functions like converting nutrients to glucose, storing ...

Scientists develop lab-grown model of the human sensory pathway to investigate how pain signals are transmitted to the brain.

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The immune system must be able to quickly attack invaders like viruses, while also ignoring harmless stimuli, or allergies ...