More than 20 researchers at 12 universities and health systems across the nation are working to address firearm deaths among children with a recent $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Carefully monitored tests to gauge the strengths and side effects of a new medical treatment are crucial to improving care. Learn about each stage in the process.

Recent discoveries about how the immune system reacts to injury - and the dire consequences if that response spirals out of control - could help improve trauma care.

One key to a healthy weight may lie deep inside the brain, in the endoplasmic reticulum of cells that produce the “grandfather” of appetite-regulating hormones.

A Cas9 protein discovered in meningitis bacteria can act as precise "scissors" for both types of genetic material, cutting at a desired spot guided by CRISPR RNAs.

In two new studies, researchers show clear link between Flint’s water changes and disease cases, and find that the bacteria strain found in homes is not what doctors often test for.

A new study finds that obesity-prone rats respond more strongly to food-related cues, including specific changes in cells of the same brain area linked to addiction.

The lifting of a three-year ban on gain-of-function research revives the critical goal of averting disaster — but may also increase the risk of accidental or deliberate pandemics.

How a visualization — and a new understanding — of a class of “defender proteins” may help scientists fight HIV infection.

A PCR-based approach to a frontier of the human genome could speed discovery in chromosome-based diseases and birth defects.

The skin condition that gets little attention from the scientific community continues to be a focus for a Michigan Medicine researcher and dermatologist.

Helpful forms of E. coli may trigger steps that keep infections out, new experiments in dish-grown gut organoids show.

Fruit flies are far more than a kitchen nuisance. Learn how the pests and other tiny critters are helping researchers find major clues to human disease.

By harnessing massive amounts of data on activity within and between snippets of DNA, researchers aim to one day reprogram both healthy and diseased cells.

A discovery in hormone-producing cells could lead to a better understanding of diseases related to misfolded proteins.