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

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

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

You get older every day. But how old are your cells and organs, really?

Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In ...

A new study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai offers one of the most comprehensive views yet of how brain cells interact in Alzheimer’s disease, mapping protein networks that reveal ...

An ambitious and revolutionary initiative aims to map every cell of all eukaryotic life on Earth. The result will be a ...

In fatal genetic diseases like Huntington's and spinocerebellar ataxia, proteins develop long stretches of repeating letters ...

Earth’s most diverse biological entities are the viruses that infect bacteria, called bacteriophages (phages). They are rich ...

Lab-made organoids that mimic reproductive tissues could point to treatments for common conditions such as pre-eclampsia and ...