Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003. Since then, researchers have steadily advanced the ability to write DNA, moving far beyond single-gene ...

Scientists suggest increasing what is understood about exocytosis could one day inform many fields of applied science.

Associate Professor Jaydee Cabral likens 3D bioprinting to baking a cake, but her research is anything but simple. From wound dressings and scar-preventing gels to bio-printed nipples and patient ...

Some time around 1683, amateur Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek scraped the plaque from between his teeth and peered at it through a home-made microscope.

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Mars-like shock and chemical stress reveal ribonucleoprotein condensates as a key survival mechanism in yeast. Life on Mars, ...

People have long said that "bread is life." Now, researchers at Tufts University are using the bubbling mixtures of flour and ...

A new study reveals that age-related changes in the gut microbiota directly impair intestinal stem cell (ISC) function and that restoring a youthful microbial environment can reverse this decline.

New evidence shows that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few #brain cell types that continue to be produced ...