Amber Dance is a freelance science journalist in the Los Angeles area. The problem of cell type became clear to genome biologist Jason Buenrostro in 2013. He was studying a cell line derived from ...

Cellular aging is the accumulation of molecular damage inside cells that progressively impairs their function and ultimately drives the visible and clinical features of aging — declining tissue repair ...

How many cells make up your body? It’s actually not all that easy to answer. But recently, scientists have made a pretty good effort. And their final count is…around 37.2 trillion. Taken together, you ...

Aging is a complex biological process characterized by the progressive decline of physiological integrity, leading to impaired function and increased vulnerability to disease. It is the strongest risk ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...