You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.

The U.S. government has recognized the expansion of the biological threat landscape, as evidenced by the guidance and priority missions outlined in various documents, including the 2023 Department of ...

The Human Cell Atlas is yielding detailed maps of human tissues and systems throughout life, along with methods to handle single-cell data. Four scientists reflect on how the project is transforming ...

Human bodies are exquisitely tuned to one world, and it is not a forgiving one. Strip away our technology and even Earth would kill us in minutes in the wrong place, yet our home planet is still the ...

In a proof-of-concept study funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC ...

An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...