Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 100, No. 11 (May 27, 2003), pp. 6517-6522 (6 pages) The biological effects of estrogens are mediated by the ...

It may sound like the start of a Frankenstein story, but scientists from New York University (NYU) and the University of Chicago have developed artificial cells made of non-biological matter that ...

A mechanism that controls aging has been identified in the hypothalamus, a part of the brain that controls most of the basic functions of life. By manipulating this mechanism, researchers have both ...