We use our lips to talk, eat, drink, and breathe; they signal our emotions, health, and aesthetic beauty. It takes a complex structure to perform so many roles, so lip problems can be hard to repair ...

Zinc is the second most abundant transition metal in biology and plays a crucial role in a wide variety of cellular processes. Roughly 10% of the human genome encodes for zinc-binding proteins and all ...

As people age or become ill, their immune systems can become exhausted and less capable of fighting off viruses such as the flu or COVID-19. In a new mouse study funded in part by the National ...

Using mathematical analysis of patterns of human and animal cell behavior, scientists say they have developed a computer program that mimics the behavior of such cells in any part of the body. Led by ...

The endoderm, one of the first tissues to form in the mammalian embryo, gives rise to the entire pulmonary system and digestive tract. Despite its importance, it has not been well characterized. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blood on a glass slide in a lab - Blood stem cells grown in lab for first time in major breakthrough Blood stem cells have been ...

Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) has launched its first stem cell regenerative laboratory. The laboratory one of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, is set to foster ongoing and future ...

You might be old enough to remember the famous “Where’s the Beef?” Wendy’s commercials. This question may be asked in a different context since U.S. regulators approved the sale of lab-grown chicken ...