One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...

A small tweak to mitochondrial energy production led to big gains in health and longevity. Mice engineered to boost a protein that helps mitochondria work more efficiently lived longer and showed ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Testing in mice suggests that rejuvenating T cells could make vaccines and some cancer therapies more effective.

Your liver cells are forgetting how to do their jobs under dietary stress. Here's how that signals cancer risk years before ...

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a new type of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell that ...

Smithsonian scientists are working on a lunar vault that will cryopreserve animal cells from Earth’s most endangered species.

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Scientists in Bengaluru are engineering chickens to produce human proteins in eggs, potentially revolutionizing low-cost biomedical production.

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...

Learn how to build a simple solar cell at home using copper tape, plastic cups, and water. This step-by-step science experiment demonstrates how to harness solar energy to generate electricity.