Ever notice that as you get older, some foods no longer sit with you the same? This could be due to a breakdown of the ...

Gut microbiome composition during pregnancy has long-term effects on offspring stem cell growth and development, researchers report. Treating pregnant mice with a common gut microbe resulted in ...

Researchers at Stanford found a way to cure or prevent Type 1 diabetes in mice using a combined blood stem cell and islet cell transplant. The procedure creates a hybrid immune system that stops ...

Can the weakened immune systems of older individuals be rejuvenated? Researchers from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ ...

For the 80 million people worldwide with celiac disease, the only treatment available is to cut grains like pasta and bread out of their lives. But researchers are hoping to change that with a new ...

Genetic neurodegenerative disorders like Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff disease currently have no effective treatments. A possible strategy is replacing affected cells with healthy ones in order to slow the ...

Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases, genetic disorders affecting the brain, have no effective treatment and are typically fatal within the first years of life. Scientists have reasoned that replacing the ...

Anxiety disorders are some of the most common mental health conditions in America, affecting about one in five people nationwide. But much remains unknown about the roots of anxiety in the brain. Now, ...

Etelka is a post-doctoral research fellow exploring aerosol science with biology and engineering. Etelka is a post-doctoral research fellow exploring aerosol science with biology and engineering.View ...

As people age, their immune system function declines. T cell populations become smaller and can't react to pathogens as ...