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

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

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

Bundang Jesaeng Hospital, operated by Daejin Medical Foundation and headed by Son Jeong-hwan, has become the first hospital ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists captured malaria's invasion structure in atomic detail, revealing how it actively reshapes red blood cell ...

Tiny, quivering spheres designed to feed and multiply raise prospect of artificial organisms to make drugs, food and fuel ...

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

Texas is currently facing a surge in Cyclospora infections, a parasite known to cause severe gastrointestinal distress. Other ...

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 ...