Around the globe, heart disease remains one of the top causes of death. Once patients begin to suffer from serious heart ...

The evolution of biomedical science can be appreciated through studies of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein in red cells. Before molecular cloning, the geneticist Arno Motulsky noted, “Many ...

Researchers have discovered there is a division of labor among immune cells that fight invading pathogens in the body. Cornell University researchers have discovered there is a division of labor among ...

The blueprint of the adult brain may be mapped out far earlier than we thought. In fact, some 60 percent of the circuits that make up the adult brain may take shape before we are even born, according ...

While it is generally believed that fetuses are at high risk of developing cancers, including leukemia, after low doses of radiation, it has been reported that atomic bomb survivors exposed in utero ...

The fundamental organization of brain networks is established in utero during the second and third trimesters of fetal development, according to new research. The finding lays the groundwork for ...

In early pregnancy, several days of intense, unremitting mental stress in a mother–such as might occur with the death of a loved one or loss of a job–may reprogram a baby’s development in ways that ...

An embryo starts out as just a single cell. It’s not long before it divides into two cells, then four, then eight, and so on — a process marked by rapid growth, in which these early, unspecialized ...

Numerous investigators use the analysis of umbilical CBMC as a means of assessing immunologic status of the newborn. Recently, there has been a great deal of interest in the identification of markers ...

Human prenatal development can be viewed as a program of genetic switches that turn on, in a highly regulated manner, at specific places and times. But a body of evidence is emerging that paints a ...