Even after decades of research, biologists are still uncovering surprises about the human body. A team of researchers from ...

A new organelle has been discovered in human cells — and scientists call it a "hemifusome."Like the full-size organs in our ...

In a twist, researchers at the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health uncovered a new organelle, dubbed ...

A new structure in human cells has been discovered. The structure is a new type of protein complex that the cell uses to attach to its surroundings and proves to play a key part in cell division.

A previously unknown structure discovered in our cells could pave the way toward new treatments for various genetic disorders ...

Yale researchers and their colleagues in Hungary have discovered that cells in the hypothalamus — an area of the brain that controls functions like hunger and body temperature — play a major role in ...

A new organelle has been found by scientists at the University of Virginia (UVA). The super-small specialized structure has a ...

Their main function is to generate the energy necessary to power cells, but they are also involved in cell signaling and death. Present in nearly all types of human cells, mitochondria are vital ...

In the natural world, genes don’t always operate independently. They can function as part of a set of genes and can be regulated at many levels, including by one another in feedback mechanisms that ...

Water makes up around 60% of the human body. More than half of this water sloshes around inside the cells that make up organs ...