Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

Anita Raj, a globally recognized scholar whose research on gender, public health, violence prevention and numerous other ...

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, and though she died in 1951, her cells never did. Taken without her knowledge, they became the ...

By electrically stimulating macrophages, scientists at Trinity College Dublin have found a way to calm inflammation and ...

In many cells of the human body, hair-like protrusions known as cilia act as antennae, allowing cells to receive signals from ...

High-fidelity visualization of a fetal heart is essential for deep understanding about heart myofibers orientation and the ...

Oscar-winning art director Tim Yip delivered a clarion call for preserving human emotion in an age of artificial intelligence ...

In a new book, Steve Ramirez explores the potential of memory manipulation to ease depression and other afflictions.

ETH Zurich scientists 3D print muscle tissue in simulated zero gravity, paving the way for growing human tissue in space.

When it comes to treating disease, one promising avenue is addressing the presence of senescent cells. These cells - also known as "zombie cells" - stop dividing but don't die off as cells typically ...

Late in the Middle Ages, Italian stargazers gave a name to the annual contagion that rolled around each year like clockwork.