Scientists at Mount Sinai have discovered a gene that can make the human heart repair itself. By reactivating the dormant ...

How do stem cells know what to become? Nearly three decades after scientists isolated the first human embryonic stem cells, researchers are still working hard to understand precisely how a single, ...

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed Nicheformer, the first ...

Over the course of evolution, the human heart has largely lost its ability to regenerate. Our distant ancestors were not ...

Cells convert mechanical forces into signals that influence physiological processes, such as exercise strengthening bones. A ...

Scientists uncovered how the amino acid leucine enhances mitochondrial efficiency by preserving crucial proteins that drive ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Humans have been trying to replace ailing parts of our bodies for thousands of years, turning to prosthetic limbs, ...

Science writer Mary Roach is fascinated by the human body, especially, she says, the "gooey bits and pieces of us that are performing miracles on a daily basis." Take the human heart, for instance. If ...

A typical machine tool tending cell combines multiple technologies to operate efficiently. This includes robotics equipped with specialized grippers and end-of-arm tooling, vision systems for ...

Each type of blood cell does its job and then dies off. Because of this, your body needs to make new blood cells every day. Most blood cells are made in your bone marrow through a process called ...