Will Rapamycin Really Help You Live Longer? Despite the lack of human clinical trials, some people already take rapamycin to ...

When a vertebrate embryo develops, a group of cells self-organizes into the neural tube, eventually becoming the brain and ...

The stunning specimen you can see above was the first documented instance of a tarantula with gynandromorphic characteristics ...

An all-in-one two-photon and/or confocal microscopy system called intravenous microscopy (IVM) was created and refined for in ...

As the body ages, all organ systems slowly decline in function. The female reproductive system ... Using a comprehensive ...

The last two decades have witnessed explosive growth in nanoengineering and nanomedicine. In particular, engineered ...

The death of a Weymouth man two months after undergoing what his doctors at Mass General Hospital described as the first ...

New research shows aging is not a uniform process. Parts of our bodies start aging earlier than others, right down to our organs and cells.

For the first time ever, marine biologists have measured how much energy octopuses really need to change color — and it's a ...

D bioprinting has been around for a long time now. It's a slow process that involves the devices printing just a few cells at ...

Researchers have analyzed the entire mouse intestine, mapping gene expression and cell states and location in the healthy gut and in response to perturbations such as inflammation. They identified ...

“We’ve built a blueprint of the entire gut, and that’s a remarkable achievement,” said study senior author Ramnik Xavier, the HMS Kurt J. Isselbacher Professor of Medicine in the Field of ...