In a recent study, scientists devised a way of reversing the buildup of compounds that lead to some age-related diseases.

A new mathematical model on human longevity has calculated the theoretical maximum age a human brain can reach, suggesting ...

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells ...

A beehive operates more like a democracy than a monarchy. In fact, US bee researcher Thomas D. Seeley describes a colony’s social structure as a ‘bee democracy’, where many decisions are made ...

Where one person’s business ends, another’s begins. This is the case for the wastewater produced at the flushing of a toilet or the running of sinks and showers.

While many of the mysteries of life remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living ...

Emily Hilliard, a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson, said in an email that "suggesting that the agency's ...

A photon is a single particle of light, and under normal circumstances, it can’t be divided. But a photon is also not a ...

West Cork councillors have criticised Cork County Council’s engagement with people living on the route of the proposed ...

Cancer, arthritis, and diabetes can develop when cells activate the wrong genes. Yet, those failures are remarkably rare.

Hundreds of undergraduates from Duke and beyond spend their break in mentored research with Duke faculty, often diving into ...

The SpudCell certainly resembles a living cell, but a key structure inside the cell falls short of the real thing ...