Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast ...

Biologists have long suspected that aging is not just a slow, inevitable fraying of our cells but a process governed by ...

Researchers at LMU have uncovered how ribosomes, the cell’s protein builders, also act as early warning sensors when something goes wrong inside a cell. When protein production is disrupted, and ...

Our understanding of human placenta formation just deepened with the discovery of a gene essential to early embryonic ...

NYU Langone researchers found that blocking a single protein in the body can trigger a form of self-destruction in lung ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Scientists identified cellular metabolism and energy signaling as a central factor connecting genetic and environmental ...

Metastasis occurs when cancer cells break away from the original tumor and travel through the bloodstream to form new tumors in other parts of the body. It is the leading cause of cancer-related death ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks ...

Cells are not immortal, and that is a good thing. After a certain number of divisions, many human cells stop multiplying for ...

AI systems have no life and no freedom — and never will. But they will certainly shape our world. How they shape us will ...

In a New York operating room one day in October 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified ...