Deep inside the developing human body, an ancient cellular recycling system appears to be hard at work long before a baby ...

After taking a pill, the drugs it contains are distributed throughout the body, reaching the tissues and cells affected by ...

Scientists have uncovered gravity’s impact on the human genome—research that reveals how it functions in outer space. The ...

Why do human brains vary in size and shape, and how did our brains expand over evolutionary time to give us our enhanced ...

Neuroscientists have long regarded this an oversimplification of the brain structure we’ve inherited from ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease in which motor neurons are gradually lost, ...

A team led by scientists at Stanford University determined that the human brain is technically made up of two distinct organs ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease in which motor neurons are gradually lost, leading to muscle weakness ...

Your brain 'changes gear' twice in your lifetime, according to the results of a massive new study. Scientists studied more ...

A single transcription factor may hold the keys to how skin ages, according to new research published in BMC Biology that ...

In eukaryotes, ribosome biogenesis initiates within the nucleolus, a hallmark multilayered compartment of the nucleus. Structures of pre-ribosomes have been characterized ex situ, but their assembly ...

What if cells that form scars after a spinal cord injury could become part of the repair process? Researchers have developed a genetic system that converts certain scar-forming cells into neurons, ...