These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...

KAIST researchers have developed a way to reprogram immune cells already inside tumors into cancer-killing machines. A drug ...

Although constipation and diarrhea may seem like opposite problems, they both hinge on the same underlying issue: how much fluid moves into the gut. These common issues affect millions of people in ...

When the cell's recycling stations, the lysosomes, start leaking, it can become dangerous. Toxic waste risks spreading and ...

Teeth function not only because of the hard enamel on the surface, but also because they have roots that anchor them firmly ...

Flexoelectricity, which can transform mechanical deformation into electrical signals, could provide enough power to fire ...

For decades, weight loss drugs have tried to coax the body into burning more energy, but the most aggressive approaches have ...

Living cells may generate electricity through the natural motion of their membranes. These fast electrical signals could play ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a confounding scourge. It's the leading cause of death from infectious disease in the world, and yet it's estimated that those deaths represent perhaps 5% of infections with ...

This hybrid system lets researchers zoom in on living human cells with incredible detail. This offers a new real time insight into how the flu virus operates. For the first time, researchers could ...

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, and public reviews. In this study, Ana Lapao et al. investigated the roles of Rab27 ...

Free radicals have a terrible reputation. These reactive and unstable molecules have been associated with cancer, aging, and degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Yet the body constantly produces ...