Why does stopping at a red light become automatic? New neuroscience shows how the cerebellum turns visual cues into fast, ...

Estrogens, the main female sex hormone, although they also perform some functions in men, are involved in a myriad of ...

Humans have it. So does Drosophila. But not yeast. That "it" is a small pause at the start of gene activity—a brief molecular halt that may have helped life evolve from simple cells to complex animals ...

Australian researchers have discovered that the TAK1 gene helps cancer cells survive attack from the immune system, revealing ...

Writing for HuffPost UK, co-founder of rape prevention charity Enough, Katie White, said the system must change for survivors ...

Bacteria use a short RNA guide to detect viruses and activate a self-destruct mechanism that protects the wider microbial ...

CBD and THC kill ovarian cancer cells at doses that largely spare normal cells, disrupting survival pathways through multiple ...

Biologists have long suspected that aging is not just a slow, inevitable fraying of our cells but a process governed by ...

Scientists discovered that certain cancer cells use a low-level activation of a DNA-dismantling enzyme—normally seen in cell ...

The immunotherapies used to treat melanoma now include well-established drugs such as Keytruda (pembrolizumab) and Opdivo (nivolumab) and newer ones such as Amtagvi (lifileucel), which uses T cells ...

A virus carried by 95% of adults from childhood may trigger bladder cancer decades later by damaging cells during immune ...

A microorganism has been discovered that breaks biology’s golden rule. This genetic twist could change everything.