Space changes the human body in many ways. From bone loss to bloated faces, here's how microgravity and radiation affect the ...

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type—the blood stem cell. An ...

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type -- the blood stem cell. An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways ...

Human biology is not black and white. Although newborns are typically categorized as male or female at birth based on visible ...

Researchers discovered that epithelial cells that line human skin are able to communicate danger to the body through a silent ...

Researchers have found that some cells form new multicellular structures with functions that defy their original biological ...

A recent study by the Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research (HITBR) at the Central Institute of Mental Health ...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

Harvard Medical School scientists have identified a key protein in the human immune system that drives inflammatory and ...

The computer integrates lab-grown neurons that develop on a silicon chip, enabling them to transmit and receive electrical signals.

The body's ageing process is incredibly complex ... pieces of genetic material to inhibit parts of the DNA in human skin cells called fibroblasts. Essentially, this process turned down the systems ...

Scientists have spotted unique subtypes of fat cells in the human body, and by unraveling their functions, they found that the cells may play a role in obesity. "Finding these [fat] subtypes is ...