Ubiquitous and almost invisible, the tiny shards of plastic that are entering the human body through the food we eat could be damaging our brains in multiple ways, experts fear.A team of scientists ...

Life’s fundamental structure is the cell, and so the main things that a cell does — processing biomolecules, growing, replicating its genetic material and producing a new body — are considered ...

These cells were found to have more peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1-alpha (PGC-1α), a protein that acts as the master controller of mitochondrial biogenesis – where ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a grain of sand, can receive electrical signals and respond to them — much as ...

An international research team focused on aging reports that urolithin A at 1,000 mg per day shifted human immune profiles toward a more naive-like, less exhausted CD8 + state and increased fatty acid ...

A month of Urolithin A supplementation restored youthful energy metabolism in immune cells, hinting at a safe nutritional strategy to counter immune aging and improve resilience to infections. Study: ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers won the 2025 World Series, and they needed one of the most dramatic games in the history of baseball to get there. Once down to their last two outs against the Toronto Blue ...

Scientist Kate Adamala doesn’t remember exactly when she realized her lab at the University of Minnesota was working on something potentially dangerous — so dangerous in fact that some researchers ...

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 ...

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