"A significant body of research suggests that microplastics can reach deep into bone tissue, such as bone marrow, and ...

Just as life pulsates in big vibrant cities, it also prospers in crowded environments inside cells. The interior of cells is ...

After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025, and a previously unknown cellular structure that could be vital to our ...

Microplastics present in household dust and water damage mitochondria, accelerating aging and increasing the risk of disease.

A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie Mellon University's Ren lab. Referred to as AggreBots, these microscale living ...

NASA's AVATAR study will send Emulate organ chips containing human cells on the Artemis II mission to study how deep space ...

These computers run off human neurons. Their developers believe they are the future of artificial intelligence.

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in diseases Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine Innovative techniques are helping ...

Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...

Spending time aboard the International Space Station (ISS) induced aging-like changes in a group of cells key for the health ...

A drug first developed in the 1950s for Parkinson’s disease may be an unexpected ally in the global fight against tuberculosis, according to new research from the University of British Columbia (UBC).

It is one of humanity’s ultimate scientific and technological quests, alongside putting a man on the moon and unlocking the ...