Just as life pulsates in big vibrant cities, it also prospers in crowded environments inside cells. The interior of cells is ...

In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...

Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of ...

Salk neuroscientists discover brain area called gracile nucleus is central to the development of mechanical allodynia, a chronic pain condition that affects 7 to 10 percent of the global population.

Remember mitochondria? Those little "powerhouses" of the cell that many of us learned about in high school biology? It turns ...

When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster ...

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.

Some human organs, such as kidneys and lungs, have back-ups. Some can be lost with little consequence—the spleen, for example ...

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful ...

They derive their energy from differences in the concentration of hydrogen ions across some of these membranes ...

Maybe aging isn’t the slow, solitary process we imagine, but a collective breakdown—our cells dragging each other toward ...