Metals: In Sickness and in Health By Stephanie Dutchen Metals play key roles in human health, from ensuring healthy bones to helping make red blood cells.
A New Twist On Old Painkillers By Stephanie Dutchen Researchers are looking for a way to avoid the negative side effects of pain-relieving medicines.
Why Sugars May Be the Body's Superstars By Stephanie Dutchen, Allison MacLachlan You may be surprised at all the work sugars do within our cells.
After a Good Night's Sleep Brain Cells Are Ready to Learn By Stephanie Dutchen Neuroscientist Chiara Cirelli at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and others believe that a good night's sleep helps us learn more the next day.
Under Pressure: Peeking in on Contracting Cells By Stephanie Dutchen A microscopic stretch detector senses the pressures inside real tissues, to see how cells react.
A New Use for Census Data: Disease Simulations By Stephanie Dutchen Researchers are developing disease-spread models from actual US census data
Cool Tools: Visualizing the Invisible By Stephanie Dutchen National Institutes of General Medical Sciences' imaging programs are peering into the lives of cells.
Inside Life Science: What Is an Ontology? By Stephanie Dutchen Virtual libraries may help biomedical researchers share ever-growing knowledge.
Cell Suicide: An Essential Part of Life By Stephanie Dutchen, Kirstie Saltsman Programmed cell death serves a healthy and protective role in our bodies.
The Many Mysteries of Anesthesia By Stephanie Dutchen Anesthetics have been used in many procedures for more than 150 years, doctors and scientists still don't know exactly how these medicines work in the body.
Learning from Bacterial Chatter By Stephanie Dutchen What do digestion, cholera and tooth plaque have in common?
What Do Fats Do in the Body? By Stephanie Dutchen our bodies need a certain amount of fat to function—and we can’t make it from scratch.
