An international research team has created a better understanding of Alzheimer's. They have shown that the cleaning system of the brain cells, the so-called mitophagy, is very weakened in animals and humans with Alzheimer's. And when they improve the cleaning system in the animals, the Alzheimer's symptoms almost disappear.

Specialized lung cells appear in the developing fetus much earlier than scientists previously thought.

In a major scientific step to understand the biology of this iconic apex predator and sharks in general, the entire genome of the white shark has now been decoded in detail.

Here's why that's particularly dangerous.

In order to design and develop new pharmaceutical compounds, the distribution of drugs and their metabolites in tissues must be determined. The emergence of advanced mass spectrometry techniques, such MALDI imaging, have been pivotal in advancing the field.

The frontal lobe paradox.