The immune system has a tough job: When a tiny virus invades one of our cells, that cell must detect it and, within minutes, ...

Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have developed some of the first robust laboratory models of a ...

In Alzheimer's, brain cells die too soon. In cancer, dangerous cells don't die soon enough. That's because both diseases alter the way cells decide when to end their lives, a process called programmed ...

Randal Halfmann at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City is hoping to treat diseases including cancer and Alzheimer's by influencing how cells make life-or-death decisions. In ...

Life is not easy in the cold, lightless reaches of the South China Sea. To survive, microbes have evolved fiercely competitive and extremely resilient. Some build chemical weapons, complex molecules ...