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A new report recommends that looking outside the dish and into living organisms gives an improved understanding of the way immune cells process and use energy.

New research could explain how liquid organelles are able to coexist as separate entities instead of just merging together.

Broadening diversity among participants in human genomics research will maximize the potential of the field, say members of an international genomics consortium.

The ramifications of bacteria's ability to become resistant to antibiotics can be seen in hospitals, public places, our food supply, and our water. Now, researchers have demonstrated how we could improve upon the ability of nature's exquisitely selective collection of antimicrobial enzymes to attack bacteria in a way that's much less likely to cause bacterial resistance.

Scientists want to re-engineer stump skin to become resistant to rubbing and think that skin from the sole of the foot could be a viable alternative.

The discovery in the 1990s that a mutation in a single gene of an experimental worm could double its lifespan set off a stampede of research on the molecular biology of aging and triggered hopes that drug therapies or other interventions could be developed to extend healthy human lifespan. But as is often the case in science, the genetic regulation of aging is more complicated than it first appeared.

Two new grants will support interdisciplinary teams to better understand and manage metastasis of melanoma and other types of cancer.

A study published today in the journal Stem Cell Reports suggests that a combination of two clinically approved drugs – Viagra and Plerixafor – efficiently and rapidly mobilizes blood stem cells from the bone marrow into the bloodstream in a mouse model. This combination therapy may offer a new approach for bone marrow transplants in humans.

The Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award honors the phenomenal contributions of Dr. Rosalind Franklin to the field of genetics by providing two young, female geneticists a cash prize of $75,000 to fund their research.

Depression affects women nearly twice as much as men, but unraveling the brain's blueprint that regulates this behavior, let alone identifying specific molecular differences between sexes, has proven difficult. Researchers have found and flipped a switch in the brain, revealing a single circuit in mice that activates during stress and is controlled by testosterone.