Sometimes I read a paper that literally gives me goosebumps—not because it gave me the answer to a question I’ve been seeking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your cells constantly generate and conduct electricity that runs through your body to perform various functions. One such example ...

A team led by HHMI Janelia Research Campus Fellow Daniel Feliciano developed a new, cost-effective technique that uses ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Specialized compartments within cells carry out specific functions. Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images ...

The aging and failure of cells that occurs when one part of the body is damaged can spread to other organs, a study suggests. The ageing and failure of cells that occurs when one part of the body is ...

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have made an important advance toward understanding—and potentially ...

A new study from scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals that the cells shaping our organs may be far more mobile and coordinated than once believed. Using fruit flies as ...

There are different theories of aging, and scientists have found various ways to measure biological age. Mutations that happen in DNA as a result of exposure to various environmental factors, such as ...

File this under unexpectedly cool: organs you don’t harvest, but instead print using an honest-to-goodness printer, just as you might words on paper, except in this case, the “words” are actual stem ...

Researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine have discovered that if animal cells gain an extra set of chromosomes, a ...