A new Northwestern Medicine study has introduced a novel machine learning method for analyzing how the brain organizes ...

When antibiotics attack microbes, their stressed neighbors ship them proteins to help them survive, new work suggests.

Researchers have discovered that the retina uses an unexpected communication network that lets separate visual pathways cooperate instead of working alone. A newly identified "commander" cell appears ...

The Blood and Tissue Bank is studying how to therapeutically manufacture and use a type of nanoparticles released by the body ...

Nature is beautiful, powerful and essential. But nature is not always gentle. The same biological world that gives rise to ...

Researchers have uncovered a key mechanism that helps aging cells stop dividing before they can become cancerous, identifying the DNA damage sensor ATM as the central player in this process. Credit: ...

For years, one of the simplest explanations for human intelligence was also one of the biggest: the human brain has an enormous number of neurons. It also has an even more enormous web of connections ...

Building on recent successes, scientists are focused on a promising new frontier: sending tiny particles into the body to ...

Hydrogen-powered flight has often been discussed as one of aviation's possible long-term answers to cutting emissions, but ...

Pacific oyster extract protected the gut barrier and reduced inflammation in human cells, giving discarded oysters a ...

It took two scientists decades to find a new nitrogen-fixing organelle. It could change the future of sustainable agriculture ...