It would seem an unlikely pairing. One, pediatric hematologist Lydia Pecker, raised in Brooklyn and trained in the Bronx and Washington, D.C. The other, Lauren Anthony, recruited from Edmond, Oklahoma ...

In a previous post, I described the 1873 discovery by Camillo Golgi of a method to visualize neurons and his decades-long debate with co-Nobelist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, which led to our current ...

Hominids experienced lead exposure as far back as 2-million years ago, new research finds, challenging the theory that the ...

An image of human colon cancer cells, with the nuclei stained red. Siddhartha Mukherjee, who wrote about cancer in his first book, now explores the history and implications of cell science. (National ...

In just a few decades, mobile phones have gone from a luxury reserved for the elite to an essential tool for billions of users. From the first in-car phones of the 1940s to the best smartphones of ...