Alan Baik is part of the team in Isha Jain's lab at Gladstone Institutes that uncovered why high levels of oxygen can cause lasting problems in humans. Credit: Michael Short/Gladstone Institutes Alan ...

In specialized chambers throughout leading medical centers worldwide, patients breathe pure oxygen at pressures significantly higher than normal atmospheric conditions. This treatment, known as ...

SCIENTISTS have developed a way of assessing the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape. This test could improve specialist transplant and transfusion practice as well ...

After a finite number of divisions, cells simply give up. As each round of replication trims their telomeres—the protective caps at the chromosome ends—those caps eventually become too short to ...

Researchers from Germany say they have successfully applied an ultra-precise method for monitoring the health of cell cultures. The team, from RWTH Aachen University, reports that they’ve shown, for ...