Taste receptors are specialized proteins that facilitate the sense of taste. There are different groups of receptors for ...

Microplastics have been detected in human blood, brain tissue, and even bones, where they may weaken skeletal structure and ...

As Mary Roach tells us in “Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy,” within a minute of ... use a detergent to rinse away its cells, leaving a ghost-like structure behind. The idea: Instead of ...

Researchers build anthrobots from human airway cells that self-assemble, move, self-heal, and reverse aging markers, offering insights into synthetic life systems.

Researchers analyzed 62 scientific studies and found that microplastics can harm bones in several ways. These tiny plastic ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), manmade chemicals that accumulate in the body over time, have been linked to liver disease and cancer, but it is not yet clear how they cause damage. USC ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), manmade chemicals that accumulate in the body over time, have been linked to liver disease and cancer, but ...

By tracking the fate of individual embryonic stem cells, researchers have found that endoderm cells—early embryonic cells ...

Researchers at Linköping University have built artificial neurons from conductive plastics that replicate up to 17 biological ...

In a preclinical study, immune cells derived from adult stem cells were shown to reverse signs of neurodegenerative changes in the brain. “Young” immune cells developed by Cedars-Sinai researchers ...

Researchers have described a large set of previously unrecognized enzymatic domains—named the Lipocone superfamily—and outlined their evolutionary pathway from bacterial defense molecules to key ...