The presence of microplastics in our food and soil has become a global-level crisis. A young girl named Anushka Sable has ...

The human body contains about 100 trillion ... Within every cell (except red blood cells) is a nucleus -- a sphere-like structure separated from the rest of the cell by a membrane.

Researchers have created an early map of some of the human body's estimated ... seeking to understand the structure, location and function of the many types of brain cells. A new gut microbiome ...

Scientists have officially grown a notochord—the tissues that act as the “GPS for the developing embryo” by guiding the ...

Individual cells ... body are constantly being replaced as they wear out. For example, the outer layer of your skin is shed roughly every four weeks. These approaches allow scientists to study ...

This is the vision - in an indoor garden, a honeycomb structure lines the walls, and inside each cell, a human body composts. When it's done, loved ones take home a pot of soil, not an urn of ash.

The notochord, a rod-shaped tissue, is a crucial part of the scaffold of the developing body ... human stem cells into forming a notochord. The stem cells formed a miniature 'trunk-like' structure ...

"The work has, for the first time, achieved a faithful construction of the complete structure [of a human embryo] from stem cells" in the ... formation of the human body plan," he said.