Cerebral malaria kills one out of five children who suffer from it and also causes long-term disabilities in half of the ...

Researchers have uncovered how the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum damages the blood-brain barrier, leading to severe cerebral malaria in children. Using a lab-grown 3D model of the BBB, they ...

If vampires existed in real life, it would only take them about 200 days to make us a critically endangered species. They wouldn’t be the sexy, mysterious creatures we know from the movies. They would ...

UCLA researchers have made strides in developing a stem cell gene therapy for alpha thalassemia major, a severe, inherited ...

Inherited metabolic diseases are rare monogenic conditions that disrupt biochemical pathways, affecting energy production and ...

Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers, and its incidence is climbing. Because it is typically asymptomatic at early stages, pancreatic cancer is especially difficult to ...

Gene editing and epigenetic silencing offer two ways of changing the basic biology of cholesterol for future treatments ...

On the edge of California's Monterey Bay, ecologist Matthew Savoca and a team of volunteers sift through sand and seawater ...

From lab-grown meat to space-farmed greens, the future of food is arriving faster than you think. These groundbreaking innovations are transforming our plates, driven by sustainability, technology and ...

This work presents valuable new data on the role of D-Serine and how it competes with its stereoisomer L-Serine to influence metabolism. The work presents a variety of solid experimental data combined ...