A Northwestern Medicine study has shed light on one of the most intricate construction projects in biology: how cells build ...

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), in cooperation with national and international research groups, have ...

The bobsled, luge and skeleton are among the more popular Winter Olympics events, and while they have many similarities, there are key differences.

Skeleton is one of the fastest sports at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. Here’s how the head-first sliding event works and ...

For decades, scientists assumed that order drives efficiency. Yet in the bustling machinery of mitochondria—the organelles ...

While bone is twice as tough (resists fracture), ivory has double the strength (withstands breaking completely). Ivory is ...

Studies have shown that in ALS patients, microtubules—which are the major component of the cell cytoskeleton and serve as tracks for transporting components from cell bodies to neuronal ...

A recent international research project has used advanced microscopy techniques and computational modeling to discover why ...

DNA, though tightly packed in the nucleus, is constantly threatened by damage from metabolism and external stressors. One particularly severe form of DNA damage is the so-called DNA–protein crosslinks ...

A series of scientific findings suggest that life is more resilient, more patient, and more inventive than previously thought ...

A neoplasm is an abnormal growth of cells in the body. It happens when the body’s normal process of making and replacing cells doesn’t work as it should. When a neoplasm forms into an abnormal growth, ...

The endothelial glycocalyx integrates mechanical signals with vascular biology, playing a vital role in health and disease, ...