On the flipside, if telomeres are too long, it can also spell trouble because cancer cells require long telomeres to become ...

Your kidneys do this automatically by passing your blood through millions of filtering units called nephrons, which have two ...

Biobots, whose growing line of variants started with xenobots, are fascinating tiny self-powered living robots built ...

A new LMU study shows how proteins function reliably even without a stable 3D structure—and the crucial importance not only of short sequence motifs, but also of chemical characteristics. Many ...

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell - from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division - scientists have opened a new frontier of computer vision into ...

Explore the fascinating world of the human body in this animated science video. Discover various human body parts and their functions through engaging and humorous animations. This educational video ...

Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both ...

Five years ago, Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD, and her team described novel small RNA-glycan conjugates, glycosylated RNAs (glycoRNAs), on the cell surface. These small non-coding RNAs have ...

Abstract: Immunomechanobiology, the study of how physical forces influence the behavior and function of immune cells, is a rapidly growing area of research. It is becoming increasingly recognized that ...

People who received an infusion of stem cells shortly after a heart attack were less likely to develop heart failure than those treated with standard care, according to the largest such trial to date.

The neuronally differentiated key sensory and regulatory cells of the macula densa (MD) were recently identified to control resident progenitor cells and endogenous kidney tissue remodeling and ...

Cancer cells steal energy-generating parts from nerve cells to fuel their spread to distant sites, a discovery that could improve treatments against the deadliest tumours. “This is the first time that ...