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

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

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 ...

Activating a molecular pathway within these cells, the team showed in mice, lets them control levels of spinal cord scarring. The new research appears Sept. 18 in Nature. By illuminating the basic ...

You have around 35 trillion red blood cells moving around your body at all times. Typically they are rounded and flexible. What happens when they aren’t?

While this may seem like pure fantasy, a recent study suggests that a “third state” of existence might actually be present in ...

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

Among other winners of the Nikon Small World in Motion competition are videos of a fruit fly embryo and of water droplets ...

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

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

"The beauty of basic research in biology," says Dr. Vellutini ... For instance, during normal development, cells must organize precisely within tissues, a process maintained by cell-cell communication ...

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between ...