While the jellyfish and sea anemone are awake, DNA damage accumulates in their nerve cells and when they doze, that damage is ...

A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...

Pancreatic cancer may evade the immune system using a clever molecular trick. Researchers found that the cancer-driving ...

Read how ancient Greenland sharks' bodies preserve their eyesight for hundreds of years and what this means for older humans.

The cancer gene MYC camouflages tumours by suppressing alarm signals that normally activate the immune system. This finding ...

The cancer gene MYC camouflages tumours by suppressing alarm signals that normally activate the immune system. This finding from a new study offers a ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Turns out jellyfish and sea anemones – among the ancient creatures with a nervous system instead of a brain – have a very similar sleeping routine to our own. A new study published in Nature ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

Alzheimer's disease has long been thought to be irreversible, but new research using a mouse model offers hope.