Every 24 hours, the human body manufactures and discards roughly 330 billion cells, a turnover rate that amounts to about one ...

For decades, biology textbooks and popular science writing repeated a striking claim: bacterial cells in the human body ...

In each cell of your body, DNA is stored in structures called chromosomes. When cells divide, these chromosomes are copied, ...

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type -- the blood stem cell. An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways ...

Living cells cool much slower than our current understanding of heat conduction can explain, according to new research from ...

When thinking of the immune system, most people imagine white blood cells putting up a fight against invading germs in the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Electrically stimulating key cells in the immune system could ...

Your skin cells can generate electricity when wounded. Torsten Wittmann, University of California, San Francisco/NIH via Flickr, CC BY-NC Your cells constantly generate and conduct electricity that ...

You might think of cancer as a mass of rogue cells that grow uncontrollably. But cancer is more organized and strategic than ...

Red blood cells transport oxygen throughout your body, including to vital organs and tissues. They also help your body get rid of carbon dioxide. Too little or too many red blood cells may be ...