Our immune systems function by employing two separate responses when in contact with disease. The first is the innate immune system, which aids in monitoring for infection throughout the body. Innate ...

Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a study finds, furthering the understanding of the possible effects of ...

The body has an intricate system to defend against infections where each type of immune cell plays a distinct role. Now, a ...

Chromosomes are structures made of protein and DNA code, and would unravel and lose proper function without the telomeres ...

One of the ways researchers use stem cells is for the development of organoids–3D self-assembled structures that mimic the function of human organs.

That means that some cells in the human body regenerate themselves much more quickly than others – and an average figure doesn’t provide that detail.

The researchers treated mouse serum with microplastics to form the microplastics that absorbed proteins, according to a ...

This may help treat chronic wounds or diabetic ulcers—and one day maybe degenerative diseases, nerve damage and bone ...