A judge found a Leavenworth County Jail inmate guilty of criminal damage to property after he ripped up the padding from his cell door. Video above: Kansas City 9 Things To Know: August 5 Andrew ...

Researchers describe the steps they took to manipulate DNA and proteins -- essential building blocks of life -- to create cells that look and act like cells from the body. This accomplishment, a first ...

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 ...

Established in 2016, the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium set out to create a comprehensive biological map of cells within the human body. Now progressing into a data integration phase, the HCA is ...

This school year, many of the nation's adolescents and teens are sitting in class without the device that can sometimes feel like an added appendage: their smartphones. States such as Florida, Indiana ...

With roughly 2,000 giant pandas remaining in the wild, scientists have spent the last several decades looking for new ways to help the iconic black-and-white bears stave off extinction. And now, it ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional ...

Human blood stem cells have been made in a laboratory for the first time, which could significantly improve how we treat certain types of cancer. The lab-grown cells have so far only been tested in ...

Dinosaurs 'He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor': The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world that birds are dinosaurs Romans Poop-encrusted chamber pots from the Roman Empire reveal ...

Basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma are types of skin cancers that form in different layers of your epidermis, the outer layer of your skin. They account for most skin cancers and are ...

A 12-year-old boy in the Washington, D.C., area faces months of procedures to remedy his disease. “I want to be cured,” he said. By Gina Kolata Photographs by Kenny Holston Gina Kolata visited Kendric ...

Exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel) is a nonviral cell therapy designed to reactivate fetal hemoglobin synthesis by means of ex vivo clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats ...