Cellular & Molecular Biology

Understanding chemo brain

Helping teens and young adults navigate care and recovery

Better cancer diagnostics and treatments are in the works

Scientists lay out the different ways we age

Inflammation from a simple infection can awaken a silent genetic defect in rats that carry it, resulting in a deadly form of pulmonary hypertension, a study shows.

Researchers ID cells that transform into tissue that caps off plaque in atherosclerosis. They also believe they’ve found the gene responsible for the transformation.

When nerve cells’ power packs go wrong

Next-generation biobanking is bridging the gap between research and patients

An image of a mesa that came to a scientist in his sleep sparks insight into a deadly heart disorder

Surprising and sometimes strange biology fuels the future of medicine