Biologists have long suspected that aging is not just a slow, inevitable fraying of our cells but a process governed by ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...

Researchers have found a way to control protein levels inside different tissues of a whole, living animal for the first time.

Human intestinal M cells function as dendritic cell-like antigen-presenting cells, displaying constitutive MHC-II activity ...

Oligodendrocytes form myelin sheath during CNS development (developmental myelination). New concepts have emerged on the role of oligodendroglia and myelination in shaping animal life experience such ...

Scientists were amazed to discover a 507-year-old clam that was already 100 in Shakespeare’s day, but why did it live so long ...

When it comes to brain function, neurons get a lot of the glory. But healthy brains depend on the cooperation of many kinds ...