For most women past puberty, the uterine lining (endometrium) sheds from the body roughly every month if there is no ...

Plants constantly juggle oxygen inside their cells, but scientists have now discovered a surprising twist in how that balance works. Researchers at the University of Helsinki found that ...

Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have—in collaboration with colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian ...

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

For most of medicine’s history, blood has been treated as a delivery system that carries oxygen, nutrients and waste. Two new studies suggest that view sells our own biology short, and they could ...

In every cell of your body, there are mysterious speckles. You need a microscope to see them, but if you peer closely, you will see lots of tiny dots: some sitting still, some moving around as if ...

A study by scientists at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona has found that collagen, the protein that builds skin, bones, tendons, and organs, exists inside cells as a liquid-like ...

For most of medical history, aging has been treated as a kind of slow damage accumulation, the body accruing wear the way a car does. A small army of researchers is now making a different argument, ...

Collagen, the protein that builds skin, bones, tendons and organs, exists inside cells as a liquidlike droplet rather than the long, rigid rod seen in textbooks over the last half-century, according ...

A research consortium has established a new framework to identify and catalog senescent cells—cells that stop dividing but remain active in the body. Because senescent cells accumulate with age and ...