Atherosclerosis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by the buildup of lipids and immune cells in arterial walls, increasing the risk of cardiovascular conditions. While multiple ...

While toxic in high concentrations, copper is essential to life as a trace element. Many tumors require significantly more copper than healthy cells for growth—a possible new point of attack for ...

Cuproptosis is fundamentally different from all previously known mechanisms of cell death: The deciding trigger is an excess of copper in the cell. It binds to certain proteins in the mitochondria ...

Trace elements are needed only in small amounts, but they can have large effects on the developing brain. A research team led ...

Studies in the roundworm model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, headed by scientists at Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine and FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute, have ...

Octopuses pump blue blood through three separate hearts, a biological arrangement that depends entirely on copper rather than ...