Researchers have used a drug screening platform they developed to show that an antidepressant, currently on the market, kills tumor cells in the dreaded glioblastoma -- at least in the cell-culture ...

The so-called third state – where the cells of a dead organism continue to function after the organism's death – is the ...

In the world of biology, scientists are quickly exploring the ins and outs of a mysterious idea known as the “third state,” a ...

Vortioxetine, an antidepressant, shows promise against glioblastoma in lab tests conducted by ETH Zurich, leading to ...

Scientists discovered a link between copper regulation and neurodegeneration, using the worm gene swip-10. Their findings suggest that restoring copper balance could offer new treatments for disorders ...

Diseases involving our metabolism—including obesity and type 2 diabetes—affect more than a quarter of the global population ...

Different cell types have varying survival times. For example, in humans, white blood cells die between 60 and 86 hours after ...

Studies in the roundworm model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, headed by scientists at Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine and FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute ... driving ...

New therapeutic opportunities often emerge from research on simple organisms. For instance, the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...

An analysis of tissue samples from nearly 1,200 older adults found that the more insertions individuals had, the younger they died.

A mechanism for metabolic disease is traced to a defective cellular scaffolding that holds together the brain’s hunger cells.

The microplastics were discovered in the olfactory bulb, which is the part of the nose that sits at the base of the brain, ...