For all of human history, death has been viewed as a final cessation of life in an organism, but new research is offering ...

Hormones coordinate different body functions by carrying messages through the bloodstream to target cells and tissues. Hormonal imbalances occur through inadequate or excess hormone synthesis, which ...

Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by cell.

Researchers have created an early map of some of the human body's estimated 37.2 trillion cells. Each type of cell has a unique role, and knowing what all the cells do can help scientists better ...

That means that some cells in the human body regenerate themselves much more quickly than others – and an average figure doesn’t provide that detail.

In a study published in Nature, a global team of researchers developed a new technology called pathology-oriented multiplexing, or PathoPlex, to map more than 140 different proteins across 40 tissue ...

A research team revealed that microplastics introduced into the body may bind to proteins in vivo, disrupt the function of ...