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Frankenstein's creature is coming back to life—again. As Guillermo del Toro's new adaptation of Mary Shelley's gothic ...

Type 1 diabetes is caused by an insufficient production of the hormone insulin by cells in the pancreas called beta cells and estimated to affect 9.5 million people worldwide.

"Once damaged, these hairs never grow back. You have around 3,500, and that is all you'll have throughout your entire life...

A Northwestern team transformed a common chemotherapy drug into a powerful, targeted cancer therapy using spherical nucleic ...

How do stem cells know what to become? Nearly three decades after scientists isolated the first human embryonic stem cells, ...

In a promising advance for cancer treatment, Northwestern University scientists have re-engineered the molecular structure of ...