The human sense of touch is a complex system that integrates diverse sensations such as pain, temperature, and pleasant ...

Scientists discovered a molecular switch that may reverse cancer cells, stopping them from growing abnormally.

ETH researchers have developed a new gene switch that can be activated using a commercially available nitroglycerine patch applied to the skin. One day, researchers want to use switches of this kind ...

A revolutionary approach to immune therapy has emerged: engineered immune cells that protect healthy tissue without ...

New research shows that a network of subcellular structures similar to those responsible for propagating molecular signals that make muscles contract are also responsible for transmitting signals in ...

Every cell in the body normally has its fixed place as part of a tissue structure. Except for a few cell types, such as blood ...

Scientists used implanted fat cells to gobble up available nutrients around cancer tumors, starving the tumors to death.