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Researchers at UC San Francisco have figured out how to turn ordinary white fat cells, which store calories, into beige fat cells that burn calories to maintain body temperature. The discovery in mice ...

A human cell is a Rube Goldberg machine like no other, full of biological chain reactions that make the difference between life and death. Understanding these delicate relationships and how they go ...

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

Rockefeller scientists uncovered how hair follicle stem cells can switch from growing hair to repairing skin when nutrients run low. The key lies in serine, an amino acid that activates a stress ...

Ageing is often described as a slow accumulation of damage, but a new study suggests something more subtle may be happening inside our cells. Researchers at University of California, San Francisco ...