Origin-recognition complex (ORC) plays an unexpectedly broad role in the regulation of human cell gene expression, according ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Miniature models of the brain have revealed a "previously unappreciated" role of microglia, a type of cell found within the ...

A team from the Microbiology Department at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has discovered three powerful ...

Clothing that adapts to one's needs and senses the external habitat. A lunar lava tunnel that uses bacteria, plants and fungi ...

Microscopic beads exploit the decreased deformability in red blood cells from older participants to distinguish them from ...

In a scientific first, Japanese researchers have successfully developed three-dimensional jawbone-like organoids using ...

Much the way the caps on the ends of a shoelace prevent it from fraying, telomeres - regions of repetitive DNA sequences and a protein structure - protect the tips of chromosomes from damage.

Japanese researchers have created the world's first 3D jawbone-like organoids from human-induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells ...

Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few ...

The patient, a 39-year-old declared brain-dead after a brain hemorrhage, thus became the first human recipient of a pig lung.

Scientists at UC San Diego have discovered a small but powerful section of DNA, called HAR123, that could help explain what makes the human brain so unique. Instead of being a gene, HAR123 acts like a ...