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

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

Researchers analyzed 62 scientific studies and found that microplastics can harm bones in several ways. These tiny plastic ...

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 – ...

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

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

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.

The hippocampus is an important brain region known to support various cognitive (i.e., mental) processes, including the encoding and retrieval of memories, learning, decision-making and the regulation ...

Purdue University scientists are deciphering an intricate cellular signaling system critical to immune response to better understand how it could be used to address multiple diseases, including cancer ...