Our population is aging. The United Nations reports that by 2050, the number of people age 85 and older on our planet is set ...

Jacqueline Tabler discusses the role of connective tissues, highlighting the complex relationship between genetics, ...

Water makes up around 60% of the human body. More than half of this water sloshes around inside the cells that make up organs and tissues. Much of the remaining water flows in the nooks and crannies ...

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells ...

For cells to function properly, they must produce the right amount of each protein. It is a delicate balance: Both too little ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University of Cambridge in collaboration with colleagues at HHMI Janelia and NIH, have created some of the most detailed three-dimensional maps ever ...

The NIH 4D Nucleome consortium, of which this study is a part, aims to extend this kind of mapping into the fourth dimension: ...

Gene expression reveals that different types of human cell can work as a unit. These cellular modules, found in several tissues, change during disease. However, suitable computational methods are ...

FMI researchers and their collaborators have shown how regenerating intestinal tissue turns small initial differences between ...

Every organ in the human body depends on an intricate arrangement of cells. For ...

Your intestine completely rebuilds its inner lining every few days—one of the fastest renewal processes in the human body.