One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

Penicillin was hailed as "the silver bullet" when it was discovered, as it had the unprecedented quality of being able to ...

Different cell types have varying survival times. For example, in humans, white blood cells die between 60 and 86 hours after ...

Similarly, human lung cells were found to be able to reassemble into new organisms called "anthrobots" that could move and ...

Scientists in Brazil have found more evidence of microplastics infiltrating the human body. While it has been previously ...

Microplastics have been found in brain tissue above the nose, suggesting a likely passageway for microscopic plastic shards ...

Penicillin was hailed as "the silver bullet" when it was discovered, as it had the unprecedented quality of being able to kill disease-causing bacteria without harming the human body. Since then, a ...

But these aren’t the viruses you fear. Some of them are your body’s secret protectors, keeping deadly bacteria in check and ...

What if you couldn’t distance yourself from something horrific, because it’s impossible to escape your own flesh and blood.

New techniques have enabled the vascularization of synthetic cardiac tissues with significantly improved parity to in vivo ...

An animated sequence which tours the human body, picturing and naming the major organs. The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and ...

Penicillin was hailed as "the silver bullet" when it was discovered, as it had the unprecedented quality of being able to kill ...