When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened ...

Healing from any injury involves a delicate balance between scarring and inflammation—two processes that can wreak havoc as well as make repairs.

Scientists have uncovered how a key type of immune cell adapts its behavior depending on the type of infection, paving the ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

For immune cells, the actin cytoskeleton is more than a structural scaffold. Immune cells can migrate to sites of infection or form precise, short-lived contacts with other cells, by constantly ...

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

Researchers have found a clear connection between the chronic pain experienced by some sickle cell disease patients and an imbalance in digestive tract bacteria. This discovery could eventually lead ...

Researchers used AlphaFold3, the latest AI-based protein modeling system, to predict the structures of all 25 known human ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals how HIV integrates its genetic material into human DNA, exposing a key viral vulnerability ...

The human genome comprises approximately 3 billion chemical "letters" (A, T, C, and G in humans). To fit inside almost every cell in our body, this code is organised into 23 pairs of chromosomes that ...

Microplastics have completely permeated Earth's environment and our own bodies — now they've been found in our bones.

Researchers found cells that ‘fired’ in pattern that mirrored mileage clock by ticking along with distance travelled ...