After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025, and a previously unknown cellular structure that could be vital to our ...

Researchers in Germany have created a groundbreaking 3D printer designed to print living tissue in the body through tiny ...

RNA-protein interactions regulate many essential processes in cells, from turning genes on and off to responding to stress.

Microplastics are now so ubiquitous we're drinking, eating, and inhaling them. As a result, they're showing up in our poop, placentas, reproductive organs, and brains. Now these fossil-fuel-derived ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in diseases Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine Innovative techniques are helping ...

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Scientists have imaged and quantified the toxic protein molecules that are thought to drive Parkinson’s disease for the first ...

For the first time, scientists can view RNA molecules directly inside cells and tissue in minute detail and across the entire human genome concurrently, thanks to new technology created by a Yale ...

Treating injuries inside the gastrointestinal tract remains one of medicine’s toughest challenges. Ulcers, bleeding, ...

Hundreds of new viruses living inside bacteria within our gut have been discovered in an international study led by Professor ...

"A significant body of research suggests that microplastics can reach deep into bone tissue, such as bone marrow, and ...