A new study shows how sleep loss initiates overeating, amplifying and extending blood levels of a chemical signal that enhances the joy of eating.

UChicago scientists find protein aggregation after heat shock is an organized, reversible cellular response.

UChicago neuroscientists are working on technology to help paraplegics move robotic arms using their minds.

First detailed analysis of the woolly mammoth’s DNA reveals how it adapted to Arctic life.

Radiation oncologist Andrew Howard uses comics to help patients understand cancer biology.

Q&A with paleontologist and postdoctoral researcher Nizar Ibrahim.

Few processes are as fundamental to life as that of one cell dividing into two.

Teens in a UChicago Medicine program used Jimmy Kimmel-style interviews and social media to persuade their peers that research is more than lab rats and paperwork.