We came to a bench where a graduate student was working on one of the key mysteries behind antiaging: How does a cell remember its former state? Borrowing from information theory, Sinclair believes in ...

U.K. and U.S. scientists have uncovered an important piece of the puzzle in the signaling pathway that causes damaging scar ...

Protein gives you energy thanks to amino acids. Learn why researchers want to reassess daily protein recommendations and what protein does in the body.

Macrophages formed in the bone marrow can only assume the function of embryonal phagocytes, or "scavenger cells," to a certain degree according to a study by the University of Bonn and the Peter ...

In mice, the treatment drew immune cells into the stroke cavity and helped organize them into a coordinated healing response.

Samara Weaving has been cast as Emma Frost — the White Queen — in Marvel Studios’ X-Men reboot, making her the first ...

From camouflage to timekeeping to wound healing, light-sensing proteins called opsins perform all kinds of jobs in nature beyond helping creatures to see ...

Clayface movie 2026 uses the DC villain’s origin to dramatize CRISPR gene therapy’s central unsolved problem: off-target effects that rewrite healthy tissue. DC Studios’ horror film, starring Tom Rhys ...

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells ...

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology. By K. R. Callaway SpudCell is a synthetic cell made by scientists at the ...

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