Historically, researchers have tested the safety and toxicity of chemicals by using biological assays, or bioassays. These tests involve exposing nonhuman animals – often rodents such as rats or mice ...

Look around, and you'll see it everywhere: the way trees form branches, the way cities divide into neighborhoods, the way the ...

Researchers have uncovered changes in the cellular response throughout lung damage caused by SARS-CoV-2—the virus behind ...

The Conversation explores why St. Patrick's Day is the perfect time to celebrate an unsung hero of your metabolism.

How well do you know your body? For centuries, the human body has been studied in great detail, yet researchers continue to ...

Kunal Khullar at Tom's Hardware] Straight into my nightmares: "Australian biotech company Cortical Labs has introduced what it claims to be "the world’s first code deployable biological computer," ...

Discover how practical strategies can activate autophagy, your body's cellular cleanup mechanism linked to longevity and ...

What is the immune system? The immune system works to keep germs and other foreign substances out of the body and destroy any that get in. It's made up of a complicated network of cells and organs. It ...

In the human body, for example, phages typically don ... found evidence that cytomegaloviruses become active inside skin cells that have been damaged by the sun. The infected cells make viral ...

This study is part of an international effort, The Human Cell Atlas Project, to generate a comprehensive map ("create atlases") of all types and subtypes of cells that make up the human body, in ...

of a smartphone antenna when it is placed inside a jacket pocket close to the human body. During the design process, the state-of-the-art smartphone structure, the impact of varying unit cell numbers ...

The research, published in the journal Cell Reports, showed that chronic intermittent fasting disrupted the development of insulin-producing beta cells in young mice. "Our study confirms that ...