Ms. Lacks’s family accused Novartis of profiting from her cells, which were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when she was dying of cervical cancer. By Michael Levenson The pharmaceutical ...

Among the most promising tools of cancer therapy, engineered immune cells known as chimeric antigen-receptor (CAR) T cells have already transformed the treatment of blood cancers. Yet, despite their ...

Gov. JB Pritzker is renewing his push to ban students from using cell phones in Illinois schools, aiming to improve student performance and protect children's mental health. The governor is backing ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- For decades, treatments for lupus, which affects 1.5 million Americans, have been few and far between. The condition affects mainly women and can be debilitating. Now, a ...

A Northwestern Medicine study has shed light on one of the most intricate construction projects in biology: how cells build and coordinate the internal scaffolding needed to create a healthy egg. The ...

Legislation to ban student cell phone use in class moved one step closer to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's desk. The Michigan Senate voted on a pair of bills Thursday, Jan. 22 that would prohibit students ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is worried about cell phones. Under the department, the Food and Drug Administration has removed webpages that asserted the devices are safe, according ...

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents flowing through our bodies. We’re used to thinking of the brain as an ...

Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law New Jersey's long proposed "bell-to-bell" ban on cell phones in public schools and public charter and renaissance schools during a ceremony at Ramsey High School on ...

Cells experience many different types of stress, such as starvation or stress caused by too much salt or too high a temperature. Insulin signals respond to such stress signals by sending the protein ...

Anyone preparing to drive with Apple CarPlay in specific situations, like traveling to remote areas or roaming, may be wondering whether they can use the service without an active cell connection. The ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and AlveoliX have developed the first human 'lung-on-chip' model using stem cells taken from only one person. These chips simulate breathing motions and lung ...