Scientists have mapped underappreciated scaffolding cells in skin, known as fibroblasts. They show for the first time how ...

Tick-borne encephalitis virus can infect the nervous system and cause life-threatening illness. Finding the cellular gateway ...

Stem cells age faster and become functionally exhausted in low Earth orbit, making crewed long-duration space travel even more challenging.

While the process via which different types of neurons are produced, also known as neurogenesis, has been the focus of numerous neuroscience studies, its genetic and biological underpinnings in humans ...

Spending time aboard the International Space Station (ISS) induced aging-like changes in a group of cells key for the health ...

A research team has successfully identified a novel DNA damage repair pathway in human cells. This study is the first to discover that proteins present in the nuclear membrane of cells directly ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.