When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for ...

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for discovering how a particular kind of cell can stop ...

The prize-winning work explains how the immune system attacks hostile infections, but not the body's own cells.

By learning to adjust these biological “brakes” with precision, medicine is entering a new era. Treatments inspired by these ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a trio of researchers whose work identified and shed light ...

“Like riding a bike” is shorthand for the remarkable way that our bodies remember how to move. Most of the time when we talk ...

Kim and Khloé Kardashian had stem cell therapy in Mexico overseen by Dr. Adeel Khan. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Kim Kardashian/Instagram) Khloé Kardashian has “fallen in love with stem ...

New research shows pollution particles can stick to red blood cells, traveling through the body—and masks may help stop them in their tracks.

Aging is the process of getting older. In biology, aging refers to how, over time, the cells in our bodies wear out or get damaged. They no longer work as well as they used to. Some visible signs of ...