Cells degrade components that are no longer needed through autophagy. New results show that a weak molecular interaction is essential for this process. By modifying this interaction, it is possible to ...

Bioengineers at Rice University in Texas, US, have developed a ‘construction kit’ for creating synthetic sense-and-respond ...

Based on new brain mapping research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), scientists have discovered that not all cell types in the brain age in the same way.

Basic Human Needs: Water, Oxygen, X is a series of memes in which three basic human needs are shown, the first two being "water" and "oxygen," with the third being a subject of the user's choice, ...

Similarly, in biology, different part of cells can be mapped onto compartments that serve specific functions. Different cellular molecules can reside in each compartment. For example, DNA is only ...

CD4 T helper cells are a type of white blood cell called a lymphocyte that serves an important role in your immune system. These cells help defend the body against infection by directing other "killer ...

Sarah Teichmann and Aviv Regev, co-founders of the Human Cell Atlas, discuss the latest research from the consortium, published by the Nature Portfolio as part of a new collection. They will ...

To discover how brain cells respond to microgravity, scientists sent tiny clumps of stem-cell derived brain cells called 'organoids' to the International Space Station. Microgravity is known to ...

From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology It can sometimes feel like health ...

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