Researchers discovered that people carrying the APOE ε4 gene variant share a unique immune-related protein signature across ...

While you can alleviate symptoms and accelerate the skin healing process, a sunburn won’t completely disappear overnight. Top ...

Regulatory T cells (Treg cells) are a specialized subgroup of immune cells that play a central role in the human immune ...

What scientists once dismissed as “junk” DNA may actually be some of the most powerful code in our genome. A new ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have uncovered the mechanism by which cells identify and repair a highly toxic form of DNA ...

Cancer can occur anywhere in the body because every tissue and organ is made up of billions or even trillions of cells. But there are some parts of the body where cancer doesn’t happen as often, such ...

Penn's Kiran Musunuru spoke with The Inquirer about the future of CRISPR technology.

Stressed DNA sets off a cascade of failures in the body linked to heart conditions, neurodegeneration, and chronic inflammation. A new, UCR-designed tool interrupts this process, preserving DNA before ...