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Seasoning your food generously with herbs and spices isn’t just a great way to make your meals tastier, new research has found that it may have benefits for your heart’s health, as well.

Researchers have used tin mono-sulfide (SnS) nanosheets to create the thinnest X-ray detector ever made, potentially enabling real-time imaging of cellular biology.

Despite its crucial role in healthy pregnancies, the placenta is one of the least understood organs in the human body. In a new study, researchers compared the two main experimental models of the human placenta.

Researchers have now shown that the specialization of stem cells during embryonic development is not exclusively left to chance but is rather determined by cell communication.

Researchers have developed a methodology to investigate the secretability of several hundred thousand protein sequences at once. This new tool enables training of (deep) machine learning predictors of protein secretability and allows for studies on eukaryotic protein secretion.

New data shows how inflammatory reactions can be resolved by "rewiring" the mitochondria of macrophages to alter metabolism and protect against overloading.

Scientists have found that a process in cells may limit the infectivity of SARS-CoV-2, and that mutations in the alpha and delta variants overcome this effect, potentially boosting the virus’s ability to spread.

Up to now, mainly individual substances have been tested for potential health risks to unborn children. Now, the "Panoramix" research project is looking into whether mixtures of different substances have harmful effects on unborn and developing children that are not adequately covered by the existing assessment system.

Researchers have found that the formation of transcription factories resembles the condensation of liquids. Their findings will improve the understanding of causes of diseases and advance the development of DNA-based data storage systems.

Using nanopore DNA sequencing technology, researchers have managed to scan a single protein. The new single-molecule peptide reader marks a breakthrough in protein identification and opens the way towards single-molecule protein sequencing and cataloging the proteins inside a single cell.