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

Normally, the immune system recognizes and eliminates abnormal cells. However, cancer cells can develop strategies to evade ...

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

A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the human neural circuit in vitro using multi-region miniature organs ...

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 ...

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

Normal, regulated growth of skeletal bones is a crucial part of the growth of mammals. This is a complex process involving ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing. Dust and rock collected from the asteroid Bennu ...