The Scientist

A Pathologist Paints the Hidden World Beneath the Microscope Lens

Leonie Schön's Lamellipodium Art blends medicine and art, turning microscopic images of cells and tissues into striking ...
University of California, San Francisco

Could These Tiny Organs Save Millions of Lives?

UCSF researchers are using tiny "mini-organs" to model disease, personalize treatment, and understand human development. They ...

OHSU researchers find ‘holy grail’ for universal malaria vaccine

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have found a key to developing a vaccine against one of humankind’s oldest ...

Scientists create first-ever synthetic cell from scratch that can live and multiply on its own

How many times have you wondered about the Big Bang and theory of how life on Earth as we know it, came to be? Or what the ...
Neuroscience News

Zebrafish Brain Features Mammalian-Like Sensory Sorting

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

Study demonstrates neurotransmitter communication in immune cells directly for the first time

Researchers at the University of Münster and Ruhr University Bochum have demonstrated for the first time in real time that the body's own defense cells use catecholamines—neurotransmitters such as ...

Natural born killers—tracking immune cells as they cluster around cancer

There is a constant war going on in your body. Working against you are viruses and cancer cells growing uncontrollably, threatening your tissues and organs. Fighting on your side are immune cells such ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Say They’ve Made Cells That Feed, Grow and Reproduce, Bringing Them One Step Closer to Building Life From Scratch

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...
Dairy Herd

Are We Putting Dead Embryos into Cows? How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of IVF and ET

Reproductive physiologist Cara Wells says today up to 20% of transferred embryos have virtually zero chance of making a pregnancy and explains how video, AI and better selection can turn those losses ...
University of California, Davis

UC Davis to Set Standard for Measuring Airborne Nanoplastic Health Risks

UC Davis researchers have received a nearly $4 million grant NIEH to develop the world’s first standardized method for measuring and describing the neurotoxicity of airborne nanoplastics.
Smithsonian Magazine

These Male Fruit Flies Have Sperm That Are Nearly as Long as Their Bodies. Here’s How the Cells Don’t Become a Tangled Mess

Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...
Quanta Magazine

For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...