AI maps fleeting DNA quadruplexes, revealing paired structures that control genes in healthy cells and cancer.

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...

Scientists at MIT and Stanford have unveiled a promising new way to help the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells ...

Every cell depends on proteins to function and stay healthy. These proteins are made inside the cell from amino acids, but ...

Memories and learning processes are based on changes in the brain's neuronal connections, and as a result, in signal ...

When you take a drug, where in your body does it actually go? For most medications, scientists can make only educated guesses about the answer to this question.

No one has yet created a fully functioning artificial cell. But a research team at Aarhus University has taken a step in that ...

Expedition 74 crew conducts stem cell and space technology research aboard the ISS, maintains life support systems and prepares for upcoming cargo and science rack transfers, according to NASA.

In 2004, science crossed a quiet line. Researchers confirmed that tiny scraps of plastic were not just drifting in oceans but entering living bodies.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for discovering how a particular kind of cell can stop the body's immune system from attacking itself. The discovery of these ...

Scientists have made a landmark breakthrough that enables the creation of viable human egg cells from a skin cell, new research claims. The study, published in Nature Communications, detailed how US ...

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm, genes from skin cells, and the "shells" of existing egg cells. When you ...