The American Red Cross has launched the Lifeblood Fund, a five-year national campaign with a $300 million budget aimed at ...

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have identified a previously unknown cell type in the zebrafish heart that appears to ...

Poor sleep raises blood sugar and weakens insulin response, an endocrinologist says, with studies showing insulin sensitivity falling up to 20%.

Major discoveries, including the role of DNA, the biological basis of psychology, and the human genome, missed out on science ...

Death ends the body’s ability to function as a whole, but it does not kill every cell at the same instant. Research has shown that some human cells remain viable for hours or even days after death, ...

Researchers have discovered a new cell type that may help regulate blood vessel growth in the heart during development and in response to injury ...

Blood cancers or leukemias are not a single disease. In fact, the same type of cancer may behave differently in two ...

Epigenetic clocks have become one of the most talked-about tools in modern aging science, promising to reveal whether a ...

Extreme dry mouth, caused by radiation used to treat cancer and by autoimmune diseases such as Sjögren's disease, radically ...

Radiation therapy starts damaging cancer cells during treatment, but most cells do not die immediately. Radiation works ...