When María Branyas Morera passed away in August 2024, she was 117 years and 168 days old, the planet’s oldest person living at the time. Her life was not only making news—it offered scientists a ...

A compilation of skits exploring the human body's inner workings during illnesses and common feelings, including iron deficiency and more!

NASA's AVATAR study will send Emulate organ chips containing human cells on the Artemis II mission to study how deep space ...

Celebrities like Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber are attempting to turn back the clock using anti-aging NAD+ therapy - but ...

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

Replacing immune cells called microglia holds promise for addressing brain conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

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

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

"A significant body of research suggests that microplastics can reach deep into bone tissue, such as bone marrow, and ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, together with international colleagues, have identified a protein that is crucial for ...