You are mostly but not entirely human. If we crunch the numbers, 8% of your genome actually comes from viruses that got ...

Could a natural check on cancer be used to stop the disease? It's possible, but to leverage a system that nature designed, we ...

A digital atlas of every cell in a developing marine worm reveals how networks across the body coordinate sensing and movement, and provides insights into the evolution of the nervous system.

A new study has found that ORC plays a broad, unexpected role in regulating human cell gene expression and chromatin ...

UCLA researchers have created miniature stem cell-based organoid models of human lungs, hearts and brains to study how ...

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

Human eggs appear to be protected against a certain type of age-related mutation. In a small study, researchers found no signs that mutations accumulate in the mitochondrial DNA of human egg cells ...

Key takeaways: Super-resolution images Innovative techniques are helping scientists distinguish a new world of detail in cells. These processes have provided clearer images of various proteins.

Aged blood cells exhibit shorter telomeres and higher TERRA expression. The scatter plot shows a negative correlation between TERRA expression and telomere length in human blood cells.

Understanding the human cell is vital to progress in the life sciences and to human health. Cells are the smallest, most basic unit of life responsible for all of life’s processes. A typical ...

In human beings, egg cells need to survive for about five decades, much longer than most other cell types – and they may achieve this unusually long lifespan by slowing down their natural cell ...

Researchers in the UK have received approval to conduct the first ever human trials for a stem cell treatment to reverse hearing loss.