In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Carnegie Mellon scientists create AggreBots, tiny lung-cell robots powered by cilia with controlled motility.Word excerpt: ...

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 groundbreaking discovery reveals how HIV integrates its genetic material into human DNA, exposing a key viral vulnerability ...

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Some human organs, such as kidneys and lungs, have back-ups. Some can be lost with little consequence—the spleen, for example ...

The yeast fungus Candida albicans not only uses the toxin candidalysin to cause infections, but also to colonize the oral mucosa inconspicuously – but only in finely balanced amounts. Too little toxin ...

They derive their energy from differences in the concentration of hydrogen ions across some of these membranes ...

Researchers used AlphaFold3, the latest AI-based protein modeling system, to predict the structures of all 25 known human ...

For immune cells, the actin cytoskeleton is more than a structural scaffold. Immune cells can migrate to sites of infection ...

Don’t be sad that Alien: Earth season one is over. Be glad that it happened. With the eighth and final episode of the season, ...

In about one out of every 800 people, two chromosomes fuse together to form an unusual bond. These are known as Robertsonian chromosomes. It's a mystery that has long stumped scientists.