Your skin is in a constant state of reinvention. Every month, your body sheds and regenerates its entire outer layer—a complete turnover powered by tiny, tireless stem cells. These same cells spring ...

A newly revealed molecular tug-of-war may have implications for better understanding how a multitude of diseases and ...

Three-dimensional multicellular human liver model: For the first time, a 3D human organoid model, developed with liver tissue ...

Some people believe we know everything about such thing as our body, since we study biology at school, read books, and watch ...

The human small intestine absorbs nutrients while protecting us from potentially harmful microbes. One of the cell types that ...

Ubiquitous and almost invisible, the tiny shards of plastic that are entering the human body through the food we eat could be damaging our brains in multiple ways, experts fear.A team of scientists ...

Tiny structures inside your cells keep your body alive by turning food into fuel. These structures, called mitochondria, ...

A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks ...

A new genome-wide mapping method finally shows how thousands of genes connect to drive disease. Biomedical researchers are working intensively to identify the genes that contribute to disease, with ...

A new study suggests that hydrogen sulfide, a gas released by the body when you fart, could help protect the brain against ...