At the heart of our cells, a previously unknown structure has just been identified, shedding new light on essential ...

Your mouth is a magician. Bite the inside of your cheek, and the wound may vanish without a trace in a couple of days.

Bite the inside of your cheek, and the wound may vanish without a trace in a couple of days. A preclinical study co-led by ...

A new study proves for the first time that the ‘two-thirds scaling law’ applies to large animals as well as small ones, ...

Certain cells have an unusual shape that is similar to an oak leaf or puzzle piece, and researchers have found that the form of these cells helps them withstand dramatic changes in volume. These cells ...

Using light-sensitive enzymes, scientists now precisely control cell movements, opening new possibilities in synthetic biology and advanced medical treatments. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) ...

The cells that make up the walls of the finest of all lymphatic vessels have a lobate, oak leaf-like shape that makes them particularly resilient to changes in fluid volume. A similar cell shape ...

Scientists used cheek swabs from participants aged from 18 to 93. They paired patterns of DNA methylation in the cheek cells to determine an overall health score, which also considers factors such ...

“We found that even though CheekAge was trained on cheek cells collected using a painless swab test, it was nevertheless highly associated with mortality risk in this blood longitudinal dataset ...

The fact that CheekAge was still able to do its job even when sampling blood instead of cheek cells is impressive. However, it is still a long way from being able to fully predict how long you ...

Buccal fat pads tend to be bigger in young children, which is why kids have those cute chubby cheeks. After childhood, the fat pads don’t change much. They usually stay the same size until you ...

While scientists have been developing such aging clocks over the past 10 years, most relied on DNA methylation in blood cells. The new technique is a second-generation clock that, as the name suggests ...