Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one ...

Cells throughout the body work together like singers in a choir to keep us healthy, as long as they work in perfect harmony.

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A new international ...

Single-cell and spatial genomic technologies 2 have revolutionised our understanding of the human body, and enabled the creation of multiple in-depth cell atlases of different tissues and organs.

Now, US researchers have discovered that the epithelial cells that line our skin and organs are able to signal the same way ...

And if you redecorate your home and sand down the old paintwork, the plastic binders in the paint can release microplastics ...

Scientists from Queen's University Belfast have issued an urgent warning about the sheer number of microplastics released ...

Texas state prisons incarcerate more than 4,500 people in two-person cells the size of a parking space for nearly 24 hours a ...

A new study published in Nature offers the most detailed map to date of how individual cell types in the brain change with age. Scientists analyzed over 1.2 million brain cells from young and aged ...