A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

An avalanche is caused by a chain reaction of events. A vibration or a change in terrain can have a cascading and devastating ...

Cerebral malaria is caused by the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito carrying P. falciparum. Once in the bloodstream, the ...

Scientists have the technology to grow humans in Petri dishes, but they say there are better uses for it: to combat aging.

Scientists can build microfluidic systems in a Petri dish out of collagen, cells, and other proteins with structural ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have examined the developmental fate (the future tissue type) of shell-forming cells ...

The risk of cancer goes up with age, in part because aging impedes the body's ability to detect and destroy cells with ...

Stem cells are often described as the body's master cells. Healthy stem cells can restore the blood system after cancer ...

Engineer Denis Wirtz and colleagues are using artificial intelligence and multiscale imaging to reveal how tumors grow, ...

For more than 25 years, chemical and biomolecular engineer Denis Wirtz has pushed cancer research beyond flat cell cultures ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests.

Destruction of cartilage and bone tissue in the craniomaxillofacial region can lead to temporomandibular joint disease, ...