New Yorkers who have traveled to South America, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic may have visited areas where a ...

What naked mole-rats lack in the looks department they make up for it in longevity, living healthily for nearly four decades.

Scientists report that the naked mole rat’s age-defying superpower likely relates to a protein called cGAS (or cyclic guanosine monophosphate–adenosine monophosphate synthase), which plays a role in ...

Stem cells in most organisms typically take cues from adjacent cells. But new research from the Stowers Institute for Medical ...

They disable our defenses and hijack the cellular machinery in order to multiply successfully. For example, the herpes simplex virus 1, which causes blister-like skin rashes, and influenza viruses ...