Stephanie Dutchen

Metals play key roles in human health, from ensuring healthy bones to helping make red blood cells.

Researchers are looking for a way to avoid the negative side effects of pain-relieving medicines.

You may be surprised at all the work sugars do within our cells.

Neuroscientist Chiara Cirelli at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and others believe that a good night's sleep helps us learn more the next day.

A microscopic stretch detector senses the pressures inside real tissues, to see how cells react.

Researchers are developing disease-spread models from actual US census data

National Institutes of General Medical Sciences' imaging programs are peering into the lives of cells.

Virtual libraries may help biomedical researchers share ever-growing knowledge.

Programmed cell death serves a healthy and protective role in our bodies.

Anesthetics have been used in many procedures for more than 150 years, doctors and scientists still don't know exactly how these medicines work in the body.

What do digestion, cholera and tooth plaque have in common?

The drier the air, the better flu spreads.

our bodies need a certain amount of fat to function—and we can’t make it from scratch.