In a twist, researchers at the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health uncovered a new organelle, dubbed ...

A fertilized egg somehow manages to build skin, brain, and blood cells within days. But how? New tech called LoxCode is ...

University of Virginia scientists discover new cell organelle called "hemifusome" that helps manage cellular recycling.

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.

The project will begin by making parts of a human chromosome, testing them in skin cells. Alongside the scientific work, a ...

Even after decades of research, biologists are still uncovering surprises about the human body. A team of researchers from ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

For me, the most fascinating part is the fact that such a group of animals managed to adapt to different habitats, which ...

A team of international researchers led by scientists at City of Hope provides the most thorough account yet of an elusive ...