The existence of different blood types is one of the most frustrating realities of human biology, offering very little in the ...

Triple-negative breast cancer is one of the most aggressive cancers. The name tells the story: It lacks the three main ...

A team of scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that controls how genes are switched "on" and "off" during embryonic development.

Scientists from Caltech have developed ‘a new type of matter,’ which they are calling polycatenated architected materials, or PAMs. This new matter doesn’t occur naturally, and uses chainmail-like ...

Scientists have spotted unique subtypes of fat cells in the human body, and by unraveling their functions, they found that ...

Scientists have solved a decades-old medical mystery by finally identifying a previously unknown molecule which is attacked by the immune system in people with Type 1 diabetes. The ground-breaking ...

In the strange and fascinating world of quantum mechanics, particles have long been sorted into just two types: fermions and bosons. These labels help explain how matter forms and how forces work.