Nanoplastics can enter the brain, accumulate in organs, and trigger inflammation. Learn how these invisible pollutants impact ...

Both studies, which are reporting the results of early-stage clinical trials, show that the interventions were safe, and that ...

D printing skin, bone, and even working organs could change transplant medicine and medical research — but how, exactly, does ...

Once one of these organs fails, especially without successful resuscitation, it triggers a rapid domino effect. The others ...

Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria allows us ...

Cell therapy development for Parkinson’s disease has been a marathon. Two new papers represent an important step forward.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will have to recover from their time in space. Learn more about what happens to the human ...

New research zeroes in on a unique group of immune cells that could transform how we treat—and possibly prevent—severe food ...

Cells are sensitive to many forms of stimuli including light and heat, but little is known about the cellular response to ...

From a pinprick to a warm breeze, every sensation you perceive begins its journey along this ascending sensory pathway. For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s ...

After more than five decades of mystery, scientists have finally unveiled the detailed structure and function of a ...