The human mind is turning out to be far stranger and more intricate than the tidy diagrams in old biology textbooks ever ...

After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025, and a previously unknown cellular structure that could be vital to our ...

High-resolution imaging has revealed the internal layout of chromatin condensates, showing how DNA fibers fold and interact ...

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

Scientists have finally watched influenza viruses break into living human cells in real time, catching the microscopic ...

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

For decades, biology textbooks have taught that human hair grows because new cells in the hair root divide and push older ...

YAHOO.COM - Sixty years after scientists described the chemical code of life — an interweaving double helix called DNA — researchers have found four-stranded DNA is also lurking in human cells. The ...

Most of them come from a subset of viruses called retroviruses, which infect host cells and then trick them into making the proteins that they need to replicate. Occasionally, a retrovirus will embed ...

The custom-built microscopy system allowed researchers to film the very instant an influenza virus attaches itself to a cell ...

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a crucial organelle present in eukaryotic cells, including human cells. The ER plays a vital part in making sure proteins are properly constructed, and that they get ...

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