Scientists are looking for answers about how these confounding trips, known as metastases, occur throughout the human body Illustration of a human cancer cell Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Back in ...

Researchers at Rice University developed a cytokine factory patch that continuously releases healing proteins into wounds, ...

Embryonic development is one of the most dynamic biological processes in nature. Cells and tissues organize and reorganize ...

When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...

In the muddy waters of Mexican lakes, birds prey on axolotls by clamping their sharp teeth around the salamanders’ limbs and snapping them off. But, unlike humans who can’t regrow missing limbs, ...

Immune responses rely on the efficient movement of immune cells within the complex and geometrically unpredictable three-dimensional tissues that make up our bodies. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...

Every year, millions of lives are suddenly, swiftly transformed by a stroke, which occurs when a blood vessel travelling towards the brain becomes obstructed, causing neurons to die off. Strokes are ...

Stanford scientists have discovered a new type of immune cell that kills surrounding cells via explosion—a cellular ...

Severed body parts from a sea cucumber survived for over three years in a lab, healing themselves and absorbing nutrients ...