Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue, a study of postmortem brains shows.

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has identified a key mechanism responsible for endosomal recycling ...

New work offers insight into how early life adapted from a low-oxygen atmosphere to the one that exists today.

A new study shows that microplastics are making their way into our brains, and that their concentrations are rising.

Biological scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope ...

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

Drying wet clothes on racks in poorly ventilated spaces could increase the amount of harmful mould growing in your home.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Eisai and Biogen’s application for IV maintenance dosing of lecanemab on January 27. Previously, the label called for biweekly IV dosing. The new ...

A 41-year-old man was evaluated for swelling in the ankles and syncope. CT of the chest showed bilateral mediastinal and ...

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out ...

You, my friend, are what scientists call a "holobiont"- an organism made up of human cells and the multiplicity of ...

Orangutans live only in the jungles of Indonesia. But humans live pretty much everywhere. Our species has spread across frozen tundras, settled on mountaintops and called other extreme ...