A rare cell in the lining of lungs is fundamental to the organ-wide response necessary to repair damage from toxins like those in wildfire smoke or respiratory viruses, Stanford Medicine ...

If it has seemed like more people you know are developing diabetes, you are right. The diabetes epidemic is not called an ...

Gut support cells communicate with surprising precision – like brain neurons – using tiny extensions to send instructions to ...

Scientists have mapped individual sugar molecules on the surface of cells at a resolution once thought to be impossible for ...

A KAIST research team led by Professor Won Do Heo (Department of Biological Sciences) has developed an optogenetic platform, ...

Scientists have discovered a sugar compound from deep-sea bacteria that can destroy cancer cells in a dramatic way. This natural substance, produced by microbes living in the ocean, causes cancer ...

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen ...

Microplastics have been discovered in human follicular fluid and semen, according to new research, raising concerns about possible risks to reproductive health.