Cancer patients often lose excessive amounts of weight. This affects up to 80% of patients and is mainly due to a decrease in ...

Many people stop taking cholesterol-lowering statins because they experience muscle aches, weakness, and fatigue.

The cells of all animals—including humans—are characterized by their ability to adhere particularly well to surfaces in their ...

Scientists in Sweden have created a new pill designed to help the body burn fat and control blood sugar in a different way ...

Two years after this, Sakaguchi was able to link these discoveries. He proved that the Foxp3 gene governs the development of ...

University of California San Diego alumnus Fred Ramsdell will be presented the Nobel Prize by the King of Sweden on Dec. 10 in Stockholm, Sweden. But getting the news about the life-changing award ...

Four UC Nobel laureates on what they discovered here, why it matters, and why their world-changing work could only have ...

While presenting this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to three immunologists who discovered and characterized regulatory T cells, committee chair Olle Kämpe, M.D., Ph.D., told the ...

A mysterious new organelle may reshape our understanding of cellular recycling and inherited disease. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com A newly found organelle, the hemifusome, helps manage ...

The discovery of an unknown organelle inside our cells could open the door to new treatments for devastating inherited diseases. The organelle, a type of specialized structure, has been dubbed a ...

The overall aim of the research in integrative physiology is to discover and validate targets important in metabolic disease. A key focus is glucose homeostasis and Type 2 diabetes mellitus, and ...

Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a pivotal biophysical phenomenon that plays a critical role in cellular organization and has garnered significant attention in the fields of molecular ...