Vaults are mysterious cellular structures that can be genetically engineered to store information about a cell’s history.

Scientists at Rutgers University–Newark have developed a first-of-its-kind RNA-based nanotechnology that assembles itself inside living human cells and can be programmed to stop propagation of harmful ...

Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, ...

After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025, and a previously unknown cellular structure that could be vital to our ...

The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

Cells shrink a major internal structure as they age. New research shows this downsizing is deliberate—and linked to longer ...

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and microscopic life.

YAHOO.COM - Sixty years after scientists described the chemical code of life — an interweaving double helix called DNA — researchers have found four-stranded DNA is also lurking in human cells. The ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave. Researchers have now mapped this hidden architecture in unprecedented detail, showing ...

This strange microscopic structure may whisper ancient evolutionary secrets.

Instead of killing bacteria, scientists found a way to gently guide gut microbes to produce compounds linked to longevity and healthier aging.