A new study shows that ultramarathons damage and replenish red blood cells in ways that could help treat cancer patients.

In people destined to get Alzheimer's in their mid-40s, one protein can delay the onset of the disease by about 20 years.

Humans (and all animals, really) are pretty complex. We are made of many different organs, types of muscles, bones, and a whole host of other things, all of which need to work together in order to ...

After a heart attack, the heart struggles to recoup and maintain energy. One-third of patients develop heart failure as a result—a condition that impacts 6.8 million Americans and carries a high ...

Blow up a long balloon and two things happen: it gets longer and it gets wider. Now imagine a living cell that inflates itself under enormous pressure and yet only grows longer, never adding width.

In organelle imaging, segmentation aims to accurately delineate pixels or voxels corresponding to target organelles from background, noise, and other cellular structures in microscopy images, thereby ...

The gut microbiome—the trillions of bacteria and other microbes that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract—drives a process vital for protecting the colon against tissue injury, according to the findings ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have uncovered how a single protein triggers two opposite responses in blood vessels—one inflammatory and one protective. This protein, a ...

PCWorld breaks down optimal SSD storage capacities for different users, from basic 256GB drives to 1TB+ for gamers and content creators. Proper SSD sizing matters because insufficient storage causes ...