Researchers from Johns Hopkins Children's Center say they have identified a gene pathway involving the mineral zinc in mice ...

A new mouse model mimicking the liver symptoms of myotonic dystrophy type 1—the most prevalent form of adult-onset muscular ...

Individualistic reward-seeking strategies predict responses to nicotine among mice living in a micro-society, according to a ...

What keeps some immune systems youthful and effective in warding off age-related diseases? In new research done on mice, scientists point the finger at a small subset of blood stem cells, which make ...

Celia Ford is a Future Perfect Fellow focusing on the intersection of emerging technology, culture, and the mind. She is also fascinated by the process of science, the institutions that fund it ...

Study examined the effects of caloric restriction (CR) and intermittent fasting (IF) on the health and lifespan of ...

When a neuron ages, it loses synaptic connections with other neurons, it is less able to transmit nerve impulses, and its ...

In muscular dystrophy, mutated DNA begets toxic RNA that alter liver function, including susceptibility to fatty liver ...

Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...

The initial donation of €200,000 (approximately $220,000) will be increased by a further €200,000 donations to LEVF during ...

Researchers have discovered that traumatic brain injuries (TBI) may increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. By ...

Unusual variations in the cellular protein factory can skew development, help cancer spread and more. But ribosome variety ...