"This discovery shows that the body has a built-in backup plan. GLP-1 is simply a much more powerful signal for beta cells ...

Scientists at Duke University made a groundbreaking discovery. They found pancreatic alpha cells can produce GLP-1. GLP-1 is ...

Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a study finds, furthering the understanding of the possible effects of ...

Spending time aboard the International Space Station (ISS) induced aging-like changes in a group of cells key for the health ...

Scientists have mapped underappreciated scaffolding cells in skin, known as fibroblasts. They show for the first time how ...

Scientists have mapped underappreciated scaffolding cells in skin, known as fibroblasts. They show for the first time how fibroblasts go ‘rogue’ in many different diseases affecting multiple organs – ...

"A significant body of research suggests that microplastics can reach deep into bone tissue, such as bone marrow, and ...

A comedic journey inside the human body with iam-dices! Explore the hilarious lives of red blood cells, brain cells, and the ongoing battle between good and bad bacteria.

New research has identified yet another way that spaceflight tampers with the human body. A study involving samples flown on ...

For years, the pancreas has been being taught in biology class as an easy system: insulin lowers blood sugar, and glucagon ...

Hype around anti-aging products has gotten so bad that some legitimate scientists no longer want to be called longevity ...

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," ...