A tiny fleet of gold nanorobots is teaching stem cells how to become bone. At the same time, another lab is using gentle pulses of pressure to coax single cells into building mineral and collagen.

Biologists have long suspected that aging is not just a slow, inevitable fraying of our cells but a process governed by ...

Biologist Jan Skotheim and his team have zeroed in on a previously unknown mechanism within the cell growth cycle that controls cell size. Cells were discovered in 1676, and almost immediately ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can continue to develop new brain cells into old age. Researchers at Sweden’s ...

While one may think that the brain, after a certain age, doesn’t function the same and that cognitive decline is inevitable, ...

Researchers at TU Wien have developed a new way to grow cartilage from stem cells and guide it into basically any shape required. The breakthrough could lead to better ways to patch up injuries.

Researchers in India have created an AI tool called OncoMark that studies the inner workings of cancer cells. Instead of only ...

In a move that will make some stomachs growl and others turn, Korean scientists have taken muscle and fat stem cells from cows and transplanted them into grains of rice. The end result is a new, ...

What we eat plays a major role in our health and well-being, especially in the development of chronic disease. On a recent episode of Dr. Mark Hyman’s podcast, "The Dr. Hyman Show," the physician and ...