The problem of cell type became clear to genome biologist Jason Buenrostro in 2013. He was studying a cell line derived from someone with cancer, trying to map out how the DNA was arranged in the ...

How is it that you’re alive? It’s a question that we rarely ask ourselves—but it’s one that has a definite answer. We all know our heart pumps life-giving oxygen throughout our bodies. How does that ...

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My mother has been teaching college for more than 30 years. She used to get phone service through Sprint (which was acquired by T-Mobile in 2020). Her phone service was so bad, she once threatened ...

A human cell is a Rube Goldberg machine like no other, full of biological chain reactions that make the difference between life and death. Understanding these delicate relationships and how they go ...

From the beginning of time, communication has been one of the most important cornerstones in our evolution as a species. And ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...

Aging is a complex biological process characterized by the progressive decline of physiological integrity, leading to impaired function and increased vulnerability to disease. It is the strongest risk ...

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Kylie Jenner announced Wednesday that she has been undergoing stem cell therapy to alleviate her chronic back pain. The therapy, often used for bone marrow transplants, collects stem cells from living ...