Scientists have made a potentially “life-changing” discovery that could pave the way for new drugs to treat Parkinson’s ...

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Saturday’s incident, in which a teenage boy from Soldotna was buried about 10 feet deep and died, marks the second fatal ...

Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells. There are over 80 types, including Type 1 ...

WEHI researchers have solved a decades-long mystery by determining the structure of human PINK1, a key protein linked to ...

While researchers have long been familiar with the surface structure of lymphatic vessels, a groundbreaking study has now focused on their jigsaw puzzle-like pattern. This arrangement helps cells ...

Autopsies play a starring role on CSI, Bones, and many other prime-time dramas about medicine and forensics. They may very ...

We have two types of hair, says dermatologist Elizabeth Houshmand. Vellus hairs, or “peach fuzz,” cover virtually our entire ...

Your cells constantly generate and conduct electricity that runs through your body to perform various functions. One such example of this bioelectricity is the nerve signals that power thoughts in ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

Researchers discovered that epithelial cells that line human skin are able to communicate danger to the body through a silent ...

Bone and muscle deterioration, radiation exposure, vision impairment -- these are just a few of the challenges space ...