Manuel Ansede

The Stanford researcher has devised a new way of looking at and modifying cells by focusing on sugars. In her rebellious youth, she played in a rock band with the guitarist of Rage Against the Machine

The sophisticated experimental treatment, which has proven to be effective in mice, opens the door to therapies that would be applied once and last a lifetime

The remains of hundreds of people buried in Scandinavia over the last two millennia reveal that there was greater genetic variety during the age of the Norse warriors than today

Little Ayla’s parents decided to risk another natural pregnancy despite knowing that both had potentially fatal genetic mutations

The scientists believe that the identification of cells responsible for colon cancer relapse has the potential to change the treatment of the disease

A US study has revealed the percentage of the population with Alzheimer’s and similar diseases is declining in wealthy countries despite the absence of any effective treatment

Satellite data shows that blazes swept through nearly 12 million acres in the Siberian Arctic between 2019 and 2020, resulting in unprecedented carbon dioxide emissions

Some strains of the ‘Morganella morganii’ microbe produce molecules that are toxic for human DNA

A new book delves into the story of Yvonne Barr, an Irish-born scientist who co-discovered the Epstein-Barr Virus, which increases the risk of developing several types of cancer

The breakthrough could revolutionize our grasp of psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, but it also raises delicate moral questions

In the land of olive trees and vineyards, one in every 700 square kilometers is now covered with this species, and one man started it all: agricultural engineer José Francisco Couceiro

The therapy, called CAR-T, has already proven effective at completely curing people with blood cancer, but it is costly

The ‘lifespan machine’ scans tens of thousands of identical animals every hour in an attempt to understand why some live much longer than others

Technical issues are pushing back to early September the launch of the crewless spacecraft, which is meant to prepare future projects to take astronauts to the lunar surface

The bone was discovered in 2001 in Chad. Since then, it has been the subject of a fierce war between scientist colleagues

The Ukrainian researcher has won the Fields medal, the pinnacle of mathematics, after demonstrating the best way to stack spheres beyond three-dimensional space

Female sex cells can last for decades without wear and tear, unlike other human cells, which age and die within months

The breakthrough will enable us to build futuristic molecular machines capable of performing tasks like the intelligent distribution of drugs

The Spanish expert’s research on the human brain has earned him a spot in the prestigious Royal Society of the United Kingdom, where Darwin and Einstein were once members

Alberto Ascherio, professor of epidemiology at Harvard University, has discovered the main cause of one of the most enigmatic diseases

Baricitinib is a hair-restoration drug for people with alopecia areata, but it doesn’t work for everyone and can cost up to US$38,000 a year

A quarter century ago, the doctor Kári Stefánsson began examining the DNA of Iceland’s inhabitants in search of the genetic causes of illness

The Spanish scientist has joined the Royal Society of the United Kingdom, to which Einstein and Darwin belonged, for her revolutionary research on the sexual identity of cells and organs

Travelers from all over Europe are coming to the banks of the Tagus River to extract the morphine-rich latex from ‘Papaver somniferum,’ a plant widely cultivated for medicinal purposes

The director of the Big Data Institute at Oxford University sheds light on the genetic roots of surplus weight and combats ‘the misconception that obese people overeat’

An international consortium has analyzed more than 60 million cells, showing a microuniverse more intricate than just neurons, platelets and red blood cells