Researchers have refined a powerful DNA sequencing tool that can uncover hidden mutations that occur naturally in our bodies ...

Dr. Graham Erwin, assistant professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, has been awarded the National Institutes of ...

Some animals, called extremophiles, can survive even the harshest conditions possible, like the inside of a volcano or even outer space.

Every minute, a woman in the U.S. requires a blood transfusion due to heavy menstrual bleeding, or HMB. One in three women ...

In what may be one of the most important HIV research breakthroughs in years, scientists have discovered a strikingly ...

How to identify the next dangerous virus before it spreads among people is the central question in a new Comment in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. In ...

Scientists have discovered that an excess of a specific brain protein could serve as an early warning sign for Alzheimer’s ...

The human immune system is our body’s primary line of defense against harmful microbes, viruses and other invaders—but that ...

In Alzheimer's diseased mice, inhaled CBD reduced neuroinflammatory signals and boosted recognition memory, suggesting an immune-focused approach to the condition.

Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has ...

Research around women living longer than men dates back to the 1740s, and has been consistently proven across nearly all ...

UC's Joan Garrett received an NCI grant to research combination treatments for KRAS-mutated colorectal cancers.