Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

"Most people would think that these organisms are just like spores or dormant," James Tiedje said. "These microbes are active ...

Researchers are studying why the energy factories are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat ...

Scudder’s book, Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn From Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling. My day-to-day parenting ...

In an advance for treating male infertility, researchers transplanted a patient with his own sperm-forming stem cells that ...

Neutrophils are an important type of circulating immune cell. The specialized neutrophils described in the new study populate the skin ... a change in the way we view the immune system's ...

Researchers investigated how to use bio-based materials to produce effective UV protection films for solar cells. The study was ... dyed with red onion skin extract provides very effective UV ...

Now, US researchers have discovered that the epithelial cells that line our skin and organs are able to signal the same way to communicate peril. They just use a long, slow 'scream', rather than the ...

Skin cells can be transformed into other types of cells, but the process is complex. Traditionally, scientists have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) as an intermediate step to reprogram ...

Think of how your skin heals itself after a scratch. Epithelial cells may look silent and calm, but they’re busy coordinating with each other to extrude damaged cells and replace them with new ones.