Every second, trillions of tiny parcels travel through your bloodstream—carrying vital information between your body's cells.

EMBL researchers have created a new AI tool that uses a “molecular laser tag” approach to identify cells capable of revealing the earliest origins of cancer. The human body depends on accurate genetic ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

whether human stem cells (i.e. special types of cells that can renew themselves and develop into many different cell types in the body) are beneficial in reducing death in people with decompensated ...

The gut lining of the human body is just one cell thick, not because it’s weak, but because it has to absorb nutrients with ...

Over 20% of people with the Duffy null variant are wrongly labelled ‘abnormal’, by current blood test ranges, leading to ...

New tools that create ultra-precise maps of our tissues are transforming our ability to diagnose and cure once-fatal ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona uncovered a previously unknown population of circulating immune cells that play a critical role in fibrosis, the buildup of scar tissue that can lead to organ ...

The human brain isn’t a blank slate waiting to be written by experience, according to research that challenges the ...

Beneath the surface of your gut lies a vast network of neurons—as many as in your spinal cord. New research from the ...

Stem cells play a central role in regenerative medicine, since they possess the capacity for self renewal and the ability to ...

A hallmark of cancerous cells is an abnormal number of chromosomes or chromosome arms, known as aneuploidy. While aneuploidy ...