Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ...

Neuroscientists explained how they created contact lenses that make the breakthrough possible by converting infrared light to visible light.

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research.

The DNA is basically a book of recipes. Each recipe tells the cells in our bodies how to make specific proteins by combining ...

Researchers have developed a method to confidently produce blood cell precursors from stem cells in mice, by activating a set of seven key genes in the laboratory. The team takes a step forward ...

A study by the University of Edinburgh suggests Covid-19 did not originate in China’s Wuhan but evolved naturally in the bat ...

A 75-person team at Seattle's Allen Institute is embarking on a 10-year project called CellScapes to devise a mathematical ...

These gentle giants have poor eyesight and may not be able to see fishnets and boats with which they have fatal encounters.

The studies in the journal Science have backed up the increasing body of research work showing that astrocytes are much more ...

Blocking Mitch, a protein that regulates energy control, prevents fat from accumulating in human cells. About a decade ago, a ...

Additionally, having a phone under a pillow may increase the risk of accidentally activating alarms, notifications, or calls ...

Federally funded Johns Hopkins team finds the virus ‘reprograms’ neutrophils to impair production of immune cells critical ...