The human body is a veritable cellular highway with up to 37 trillion cells traveling about and carrying out all essential ...

Think learning and memory are all the job of the brain? You might want to think again, if the results of a recent study are ...

A Falmouth teen, Jayden Wilsey, is the first to receive gene therapy to treat sickle cell at Boston Children's Hospital.

Life runs on information. In living systems, that information takes two main forms: the genome and the epigenome.

Pinpointing the precise culprits behind harmful biological processes—such as excessive scarring (fibrosis) in organs like the ...

Numerous insects, including mites, lice, fleas, ticks, and bed bugs, can inhabit or visit the human body. These creatures ...

For over a decade, scientists have been growing organoids—small clusters of cells that mimic a particular organ—to serve as ...

Australian researchers have found a way to force the HIV virus out of hiding within cells, opening the way to eradicate the virus from the body.

In the world of microorganisms, microbes compete for turf, spew chemicals at foes, and sometimes exploit the microscopic ...

Researchers discovered that when Covid-19 infects a human cell, it sets off a ghoulish ... These sick zombie cells appear to be using those streaming strands to reach their healthy neighbours.

In this protected bubble, "The sperm can be stored there in a viable but functionally suppressed state for anywhere up to ...