Scientists say they captured 3D images of a new organelle they're calling a "hemifusome," which may be a recycling center in ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the ...

The delicate balance between cell death and regeneration is crucial for human health and longevity. Most mechanisms involved ...

You see an engine, the battery, various fluid reservoirs; all the normal stuff… and then it catches your ... a specialized structure that performs some specific function – inside human cells. The team ...

Other potential applications include enhancing regenerative medicine and combating cancer growth. “The next step [could be] using not only human cells but human organoids that model diseases,” You ...

Like all viruses, HSV-1 requires a host to replicate, transforming each cell it enters into a virus-producing factory. Scientists have observed that when HSV-1 infects our cells, our chromosomes begin ...

A fertilized egg somehow manages to build skin, brain, and blood cells within days. But how? New tech called LoxCode is ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...

Fat isn’t just a guilty pleasure — it’s cancer’s secret weapon. New research from UT Southwestern Medical Center is shedding ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...