A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

Scientists sometimes compare predicting the course of epidemics to forecasting the weather. But there's a major ...

BACKGROUND: Direct reprogramming of fibroblasts to cardiomyocytes is a potentially curative strategy for ischemic heart ...

The UCLA advance opens the door to growing other vascularized organ models, including intestines and colons, providing ...

This important study introduces a Bayesian method to determine bacterial counts that accounts for the experimental noise inherent to dilution and plating methods, and distinguishes it from biological ...

In the long term, the model system will support the development of drugs to treat a range of disorders, particularly ...