For most of medicine’s history, blood has been treated as a delivery system that carries oxygen, nutrients and waste. Two new ...

For many patients who survive a heart attack, recovery is only the beginning. Structural and functional changes in the heart ...

If you are a parent of a young child with autism (especially level 2 or 3, requiring significant support), the promise of a ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and other intestinal disorders affect millions of people worldwide, often causing lasting ...

Science succeeds by failure, just as surely as it works by success. We slowly come to know how the physical world works by learning that what we thought was true is all wrong. Science teaches us to ...

After decades of hype and setbacks, scientists have made impressive progress into tricking stem cells into repairing organs. Stem cells (like the ones above, growing in petri dishes) are able to ...

Korean scientists found a bacterium living in your blood that produces compounds that protected skin cells from aging in lab ...

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type -- the blood stem cell. An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways ...

A new treatment that blocks an aging-related protein restored lost cartilage in old mice and helped prevent arthritis after ...