Dry eye disease affects millions of people, causing burning, redness, and constant eye fatigue that can worsen over time. Scientists now believe the problem may begin deep inside tear glands, where a ...

A group of Australian scientists has uncovered a new way to fight some of the toughest cancers by targeting an overlooked cellular process called minor splicing. This tiny but vital mechanism turns ...

Established in 2016, the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium set out to create a comprehensive biological map of cells within the human body. Now progressing into a data integration phase, the HCA is ...

Katsuhiko Hayashi, a genome scientist at Osaka University, turned that tenet on its head last year when he reprogrammed a ...

You might feel the same every day, but biologically, you never are. Beneath the surface, your body is constantly rebuilding ...

The exchange of cells between a mother and a fetus is a well-documented phenomenon that scientists have known about for more ...

Hair loss and graying, the earliest visible hallmarks of skin aging, result from the functional decline of hair follicle stem ...