Scientists have taken a key step toward the development of what could be a breakthrough treatment for corneal blindness, a condition that affects millions of people around the world. The…
Chemotherapy and radiation failed to thwart Erika Hurwitz’s rare cancer of white blood cells. So her doctors offered her another option, a drug for melanoma. The result was astonishing. Within…
A new compound has blocked H.I.V. infection so well in monkeys that it may be able to function as a vaccine against AIDS, the scientists who designed it reported Wednesday….
Strange but true fact: Our bodies are made of more bacteria than human cells and contains trillions of microbes (bacteria and fungi). In fact, it’s estimated that the body is…
Hats off to researchers in California. They’ve taken what appears to be a big step toward the development of a cure for hair loss, a condition that affects 50 million…
Carl Zimmer MATTER A tumor, as strange as it may sound, is a little society. The cancer cells that make it up cooperate with one another, and together they thrive….
Successful methods such as chemotherapy work by killing the cancer cells, but they also destroy healthy tissue. Health practitioners have been searching for a magic bullet that goes straight to…
We typically think of touch as a pleasant, but not particularly important part of life. But touch, which is the interface between our bodies and the outside world, does a…
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which Holder said “remains the most dangerous of the al Qaeda cells,” has claimed responsibility for the attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo….