The faint glow of a jellyfish revealed a molecule that would change science. Known as green fluorescent protein (GFP), it ...

Editas Medicine, Inc. (Nasdaq: EDIT), a pioneering gene editing company, today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed-in-part and vacated-in-part the Patent Trial ...

“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea.

People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this ...

The human body and its organs are composed of a wide variety of cell types. Although all cells contain the same genes, they ...

A new study by Vanderbilt investigators has uncovered a previously unknown biological mechanism: how tissues detect and ...

Keep your hands off your eyes Your eyes are extremely sensitive: Not only can touching them introduce germs, but you also run the risk of accidentally inserting micro-particles of dirt, which can ...

Can we continue a creative life after death — and should we? They're questions you'll come face-to-face with as you walk past ...