The membrane-bound organelle appears to play a huge role in helping cells sort, discard, and recycle their contents. It's ...

Researchers have reported growing hearts containing human cells in pig embryos for the first time. The embryos survived for 21 days, and in that time their tiny hearts started beating.

Gene expression reveals that different types of human cell can work as a unit. These cellular modules, found in several tissues, change during disease.

Even after decades of research, biologists are still uncovering surprises about the human body. A team of researchers from ...

The human brain is the most complicated organ that nature has ever created: 100 billion nerve cells and many more contact points between them provide our brain with capabilities that no supercomputer ...