The gene that creates the human body has been identified. In a breakthrough that could help explain why so many pregnancies fail, scientists at the University of Cambridge showed ...

Researchers at the University of Münster and Ruhr University Bochum have demonstrated for the first time in real time that the body's own defense cells use catecholamines—neurotransmitters such as ...

We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human ...

Engineers have developed a new way to monitor how tiny lab-grown human heart tissues beat—by effectively "listening" to the ...

Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...

Fruit flies’ giant cells rely on collective motion, pushing against each other to prevent their flagella from tangling ...

We’re just beginning to decode this faint optical “signature of life” and what it could reveal about health, disease, and the ...

A laser (purple) is powerfully amplified by highly polished mirrors and focused on the electron beam (blue) to shift its phase and increase the cryo-EM microscope’s contrast, allowing biologists to ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have found a key to developing a vaccine against one of humankind’s oldest ...

Producing follicles isn’t the only task for ovaries, new research suggests. (Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library/Getty ...

In the development of diseases such as muscular dystrophy, cancer, Ebola and dengue, numerous chemical reactions take place ...

UC Davis researchers have received a nearly $4 million grant NIEH to develop the world’s first standardized method for measuring and describing the neurotoxicity of airborne nanoplastics.