The microbiome-the trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live quietly in our body-plays a crucial role in shaping ...

A Czech scientist has contributed to understanding the function of the thymus—the training center of the immune system. T ...

Plankton are the invisible engines of life on Earth, producing much of the planet's oxygen and forming the foundation of the ...

Recent research on human evolution suggests that the extinction of our Neanderthal cousins may have been hastened by ...

Bacterial metabolites queuine and preQ1 have been found to directly regulate protein synthesis in human cells, promoting or ...

A pandemic-era breakthrough has allowed scientists to literally expand our view of plankton. By using ultrastructure expansion microscopy, researchers visualized the inner workings of hundreds of ...

Researchers from UNIGE and EMBL reveal the internal structure of over hundreds of plankton species, paving the way for a global cellular atlas.

Discovery of preTfr cells and their loss during infection may explain autoantibody productionA research team at The ...

In many cells of the human body, hair-like protrusions known as cilia act as antennae, allowing cells to receive signals from ...

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...