Dietary restriction extends lifespan in many species, but how it does so is unknown. Now, Bishop and Guarente have revealed a molecular process by which diet restriction, through activation of the ...

I remember the day I got obsessed with a tiny, see-through worm. I was in a classroom at Northeastern University, where I worked at the time, giving a science-communication workshop to a group of ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile —commonly known as C. diff —are a serious and persistent problem for patients and ...

Researchers have solved a cellular mystery that may lead to better therapies for colorectal and other types of cancer. A professor of pediatrics-developmental biology and an assistant professor of ...