A Northwestern University-led international team of scientists has, for the first time, directly observed catalysis in-action ...

A surprising link between the immune system and brain behavior is emerging, as new research reveals how a single immune ...

Immediate use for the newly developed assembloids could include studying neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

Chemokines, our body's chemical messengers, play a crucial role in regulating the immune response.  They are secreted by ...

New research shows that apathy and fatigue in advanced cancer are driven not by physical decline, but by inflammation-sensing ...

Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This ...

New findings suggest that the gender gap in depression rates during adolescence might be linked to a chemical imbalance in ...

Scientists created a model of the human pain pathway in a dish by connecting four separate brain organoids. The feat should help them understand sensory disorders like those affecting pain perception.

Wear and tear on plastic products releases small to nearly invisible plastic particles, which could impact people’s health ...

Wear and tear on plastic products releases small to nearly invisible plastic particles, which could impact people's health when consumed or inhaled. To make these particles biodegradable, researchers ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of humans' most prominent nervous pathways for sensing ...

Four tiny 3D organs connected themselves in a lab dish, forming a replica of the human pain pathway, in a new study. The discovery allows scientists to better understand chronic pain and how pain ...