Like all complex organisms, every human originates from a single cell that multiplies through countless cell divisions.

Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain's memory center, the hippocampus, ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

In this week’s edition of Science for All, Priyali Prakash explains how lunar dust simulants affect human lungs.

Japanese researchers have started clinical trials to explore the effectiveness and safety of universal artificial blood, ...

After trying to conceive for 18 years, one couple is now pregnant with their first child thanks to the power of artificial intelligence. The couple had undergone several rounds of in vitro ...

In an innovative program at a jail in Athens, inmates face their past and are given more freedom. The goal? That they stop coming back.

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing controversy in neuroscience.