Creating artificial systems that mimic the functioning of cells is one of the goals of what is known as synthetic biology.

Our hearts beat around 100,000 times a day—and do so throughout our entire lives. They draw the energy for this from the ...

The human body is made up of trillions of cells that perform functions from skin protection to muscle movement. Cells can ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown feature of cell death that reshapes how the immune system identifies and ...

Sitting above each kidney are two small endocrine glands about the size of walnuts. These are the adrenal glands, responsible ...

Brown fat has long carried a kind of scientific promise. Unlike the more familiar white fat that stores energy, this darker ...

Scientists uncover a metabolic vulnerability in aging cells that could be key to restoring resilience and combating ...

Mount Sinai researchers have published the first organ-wide human skin spatial atlas from across the body. It provides an ...

Cell competition, a defense system orchestrated by epithelial cells to suppress cancer formation, is altered in epithelial cells with sequential mutations. Activated Ras mutant epithelial cells, which ...

A small molecule inside your body quietly fuels life every day. It helps your cells turn fat into energy, keeping your heart ...

Scientists created a small implant that works like a living pharmacy, producing medicine inside the body using living cells.