Specialized structure, dubbed a “hemifusome” by University of Virginia School of Medicine and the National Institutes of ...

Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen part of a human cell that could help research on Alzheimer's disease. The new ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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