DNA is typically found within chromosomes, but certain tumors store cancer-promoting genes outside of chromosomes as ...

An improvement in decision-making development facilitates enhanced performance in learning tasks. Adults tend to make better decisions than adolescents, a development that leads to more specific and ...

Cell-to-cell communication through nanosized particles, working as messengers and carriers, can now be analyzed in a whole ...

Brain-imaging data collected from fetuses and infants has revealed a rapid surge in functional connectivity between brain ...

Minuscule particles of plastic are not only bad for the environment. A study led from Umeå, Sweden, has shown that the so-called nanoplastics which enter the body also can impair the effect of ...

High-quality curated knowledge is needed for the next generation, but it should be placed in a modern digital context.

Cell density is a broadly applicable tool for guiding engineered and naturally occurring cells to build a vast array of structures, tissues, and organs.

An international team of researchers has achieved an unprecedented milestone: the creation of mouse stem cells capable of generating a fully developed mouse using genetic tools from a unicellular ...

Humans, it turns out, possess much higher metabolic rates than other mammals, including our close relatives, apes and ...

But a new study, published Nov. 19 in Current Biology, offers compelling evidence that even tiny single-cell creatures such as ciliates and amoebae, as well as the cells in our own bodies, could ...

The first 1,000 days of a child’s life – pregnancy and the months leading to their second birthday – are a critical time.

The centrality of the first 1000 days—from conception to 2 years of age—for early childhood development is recognised in global research, policy, and practice as a crucial period for physical growth ...