Scientists have captured an unprecedented, real-time view of influenza viruses as they move across and slip inside human ...

Inside human cells, biology has pulled off the ultimate packing job, figuring out how to fit six feet of DNA into a nucleus ...

After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025, and a previously unknown cellular structure that could be vital to our ...

Every winter, as the air sharpens and scarves return to shoulders, an old visitor also makes a reappearance: the flu. It ...

The human mind is turning out to be far stranger and more intricate than the tidy diagrams in old biology textbooks ever ...

Tiny structures inside your cells keep your body alive by turning food into fuel. These structures, called mitochondria, ...

High-resolution imaging has revealed the internal layout of chromatin condensates, showing how DNA fibers fold and interact ...

YAHOO.COM - Sixty years after scientists described the chemical code of life — an interweaving double helix called DNA — researchers have found four-stranded DNA is also lurking in human cells. The ...

Most of them come from a subset of viruses called retroviruses, which infect host cells and then trick them into making the proteins that they need to replicate. Occasionally, a retrovirus will embed ...

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a crucial organelle present in eukaryotic cells, including human cells. The ER plays a vital part in making sure proteins are properly constructed, and that they get ...

Scientists are learning how to revive faltering human cells by loading them with fresh power plants, effectively repairing ...