Recent research highlights that for fertility and aging, the egg may be the leading lady, but she needs her supporting cast.

A light micrograph of the larva of the parasitic flatworm that causes the disease schistosomiasis in people. A RIKEN researcher has ...

Sunday marks the shortest day of the year and the first day of astronomical winter. Look out for "winter vomiting disease" this holiday season.

In a new study in Nature Communications, researchers from around India have suggested that the key to outsmarting the ...

In a person living with HIV, proviruses—strands of HIV DNA—are typically integrated into the T cell genome and become a ...

Scientists are discovering that the oral microbiome—home to hundreds of species of bacteria and fungi—may help predict ...

A new method uses the auxin-inducible degron (AID) system to tune protein levels with precision in living C. elegans.

Scanning electron micrograph showing HIV (yellow) attacking a human T cell (blue). In a new study, Johns Hopkins Medicine-led researchers report on a person living with HIV who had a dramatic drop in ...

Some children have already died and only a minority who inherit the mutation will escape cancer in their lifetimes.

A young woman's ear is drawing attention as it is revealed that her ears are attached to her feet. This is the cultivation of ears on the feet after losing them in an accident. According to Chinese ...

The person was an older adult with underlying health conditions, officials said. The first human to have ever been infected with the H5N5 strain of bird flu has died, Washington state health officials ...