James Chen, a professor of microbiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has won a Lasker Award for his discovery of an ...

Advances in cell and molecular biology have catapulted our understanding of the science of life from the basic understanding of how cells and the components of cells interact within living organisms.

One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

Video of cell division occurring in a developing fly embryo named winner of the 14th annual Nikon Small World in Motion ...

A $5.3 million National Institutes of Health grant awarded to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences will support ...

After a spinal cord injury, nearby cells quickly rush to action, forming protective scar tissue around the damaged area to ...

Studying human embryonic development is complicated for several reasons. Models derived from pluripotent stem cells ...

Proteins are composed of combinations of 20 different amino acids, arranged into diverse sequences like words. But researchers trying to engineer biologic molecules with new functions have long felt ...

David Julius and Wendy Yue have discovered a natural mechanism that could help reduce scarring after a spinal cord injury.

Dean Mark T. Gladwin, MD, has announced the formation of a new Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Drug Development, ...

A $5.3 million National Institutes of Health grant awarded to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences will support advanced cancer research in Oklahoma. The Centers of Biomedical Research ...

Plant scientists have identified a protein that plays a previously unknown role in controlling cell differentiation and determining gender in vascular plants, using a fern model. The discovery ...