Scientists have long known that cellular membranes vary in thickness, but measuring those differences inside actual cells has ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

When the four-member crew of Axiom-2 launched into space in May 2023, their 10-day mission was chock full of experiments ...

A Cedars-Sinai study shows that spinal cord astrocytes, long thought to be passive support cells, actively coordinate cleanup ...

A new single-cell profiling technique has mapped pre-malignant gene mutations and their effects in solid tissues for the ...

Cholera remains a major global public health challenge, with an estimated 1.3 to 4 million cases and tens of thousands of ...

A team led by investigators at the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute has discovered that a particular marker on tumor ...

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, PhD, and Jill Moore, PhD'18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the known number of potential ...

Bowel cancer risk is influenced by several overlapping factors including age, weight and inflammation. This study is early stage biology, but it strengthens the idea that long term gut health is ...

Your body could get its own check engine light with this new glowing skin technology from Japan When you are driving and a ...

Hijacking the energy-producing organelles from immune cells seems to help tumours in mice to infiltrate lymph nodes.

UCSF scientists engineered old fibroblast cells to turn their genes on and off in the same way as young fibroblasts. The old ...