Scientists discover how aging alters the function of cells, called mesenchymal drift, and manage to reverse this process.

Pregnancy creates a lifelong biological link as cells pass between mother and child and remain in the body for decades.

The university's scientists have received a $28.5 million award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop a transplantable 3D-printed liver patch. The initiative ...

During pregnancy, maternal and fetal cells migrate back and forth across the placenta, with fetal cells entering the mother's ...

How old are you, really? People are flocking to so-called longevity clinics and buying tests online to find out their “biological age”—a metric that some scientists say could reveal how healthy a ...

“There’s enough data out there to say that beige fat is good for human health,” says Bruce Spiegelman, a researcher at the ...

A new mouse study suggests that "beige" fat surrounding blood vessels can send calming signals to the arteries—revealing an ...

Your body could get its own check engine light with this new glowing skin technology from Japan When you are driving and a yellow icon flashes on your dashboard, you know immediately that something is ...

The majority of human illnesses is caused by damage of a single organ like the liver whose failure accounts for 2M deaths worldwide every year. Orthotopic transplants are the only curative therapy ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

Even if you think you learned everything that you needed to know way back in biology class, everyone has knowledge gaps. And often you’re not even aware that they exist. There are tons of things we ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Monika Piotrowska, University at Albany, State University of New York (THE ...