Researchers are learning how to refill the energy reserves of aging human cells, turning a long-standing metaphor about ...

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected function for a crucial protein involved in cell division. Reported in two consecutive ...

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

Scientists have found that human hair growth does not grow by being pushed out of the root; it's actually pulled upward by a ...

Syntax Bio, a synthetic biology company programming the next generation of cell therapies, has published new research in ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...

Our cells are continually being exposed to environmental assaults. For instance, skin is exposed to pollutants and UV radiation. Our lungs are subject to environmental stimuli such as smoke ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The human cell is a miserable thing to study. Tens of trillions of them exist in the body, forming an enormous and intricate network that governs every disease ...

Scientists are finding that brain immune cells known as microglia with a specific mutation (at right) stayed young and ...