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In the movie “Jurassic Park,” scientists extracted DNA that had been preserved in amber for…

A healthy, functional kidney must maintain a delicate balance of water, nutrients, and electrolytes so…

Even before we are born and begin experiencing the sensations of daily life — a…

Neurons communicate electrically so to understand how they produce brain functions such as memory, neuroscientists…

  A bacterial enzyme called histidine kinase is a promising target for new classes of…

As cancer cells divide and grow in number, they often have high levels of base…

When Moe Haines first moved from Beirut, Lebanon to the United States for college, his…

Decades into the HIV epidemic, there is as yet no effective vaccine to prevent new…

The brain’s ability to learn comes from “plasticity,” in which neurons constantly edit and remodel…

The human genome contains about 23,000 genes, but only a fraction of those genes are…