Remember seeing your triglyceride levels in your lab report? Ah! Fats you may dismiss, thinking of the next gym work you need to head to. Fatty acids are broken down via a process called β-oxidation.

Your organs are constantly talking to each other in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Tapping into these communication ...

The doctors faced a dilemma: The patient’s lungs were fueling the infection, but he was too sick to undergo a transplant ...

Vaults are mysterious cellular structures that can be genetically engineered to store information about a cell’s history.

Scientists hope their findings will potentially spare tens of thousands of future heart patients from undergoing a procedure.

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

Artemis II will flight-test Orion and the Space Launch System, introducing integrated spacecraft, rocket, and life-support systems designed for sustained human travel beyond low Earth orbit.

Over the past 12 months, hundreds of peer-reviewed cannabis-related studies have been released, covering everything from pain ...

A distinct set of microbes has been identified in people with obesity, which might help spot and treat the condition early – ...

The discovery fundamentally changes the understanding of a structure in the avian eye that has been misinterpreted for centuries.

A new study explains how birds maintain sharp eyesight despite their retinas lacking blood vessels, finally resolving a centuries-old biological paradox.

Neural tissue normally dies quickly without oxygen. Yet bird retinas—among the most energy-demanding tissues in the animal ...