Canadians swallow millions of pills every day to treat common health issues like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and Type II diabetes, but scientists are working at the molecular level to turn ...

CANCERS ARE real biological cheats. Whereas most of the cells in a healthy animal’s body get along by following the same set of genetic rules, cancer cells shamelessly ignore them. Healthy cells, for ...

Every day the human body replaces billions of cells, flushing out the old and generating the new, healthy ones. The average lifespan of a red blood cell is just under four months, while skin cells ...

A rogue set of “zombie” immune cells may be driving aging and fatty liver disease by flooding tissues with inflammation. Researchers found these cells accumulate with age and high cholesterol—and can ...

Immune cells that help to fight off foreign invaders in the body also provide crucial support for muscles during exercise, suggests a mouse study published in Cell on 17 April 1. B cells are the ...

Researchers at University College Dublin have discovered a previously unknown "courier system" that cells use to deliver coherent biological messages between each other, opening new possibilities for ...

Scientists have unveiled a detailed "atlas" of the placenta and uterus, showing how these unique tissues grow and evolve throughout pregnancy to accommodate a developing fetus. In charting this new ...

A groundbreaking clinical trial is testing whether specially engineered stem cells can help the brain restore its own dopamine production in people with Parkinson’s disease. Because the condition is ...

As the four Artemis II astronauts looped around the moon this week before their return trip to Earth, so did four transparent chips, each about the size of a USB thumb drive and seeded with their bone ...

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Organoids, also known as lab grown organs, have been studied for over a century now. American biologist Henry Van Peters Wilson first demonstrated the ability for cells to self-organize for ...