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

Researchers have created an early map of some of the human body's estimated 37.2 trillion cells. Each type of cell has a unique role, and knowing what all the cells do can help scientists better ...

What makes someone a "morning lark" or a "night owl?" Why does jet lag hit us so hard, and why do some people struggle each ...

Stress and broken sleep do not just leave people groggy, they quietly chip away at the very immune cells that keep infections ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed two powerful computational tools that could transform how researchers ...

A New York University study has found that kidney and nerve tissue cells can form memories much like brain cells. According to the study authors, their findings could help researchers better ...

Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly ...

New research has mapped the cell types that specialize to form reproductive organs in both sexes, identifying key genes and ...

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

Stage 4 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a rapidly growing lymphoma affecting at least one other organ outside the lymphatic system. Cancer is the unusual growth and spread of cells within the ...