Tiny structures inside your cells keep your body alive by turning food into fuel. These structures, called mitochondria, ...

The human small intestine absorbs nutrients while protecting us from potentially harmful microbes. One of the cell types that ...

Cells are not immortal, and that is a good thing. After a certain number of divisions, many human cells stop multiplying for ...

Biomedical researchers at Texas A&M University may have discovered a way to stop or even reverse the decline of cellular energy production—a finding that could have revolutionary effects across ...

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many components of the cell still remain uncharted. "We know each of the proteins ...

Melondy Phillips Staff Writer In an age of climate-controlled homes, offices and even vehicles, many humans have become ...

Erythritol may impair cellular functions essential to maintaining brain blood vessel health, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. Findings suggest that erythritol increases ...

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes has just been completed and released. Researchers used large-scale evolutionary modeling to integrate data on ...

SickKids researchers discovered that a long non-coding RNA, CISTR-ACT, directly regulates cell size. Using gene-editing tools ...