A recent review by Prof. Zhu Bing and Associate Professor Xiong Jun from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy ...

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...

As war continues to rage in Gaza and Ukraine, there is concern about how the related trauma might be transmitted to future ...

In 1968 James Watson published The Double Helix, his highly personalized and controversial account of the events. It ...

The NICER telescope developed a light leak in May 2023 when several thin thermal shields were damaged and let in sunlight ...

What is an abdominal X-ray? X-rays use invisible electromagnetic energy beams to make images of the abdomen. X-rays pass through body tissues onto a special film similar to camera film and make a ...

Some of the most harmful genetic changes in cancer are also the hardest to see. These structural alterations, deep within a tumor's DNA, can fuel aggressive growth and evade standard testing ...

Fu and her colleagues attempted to retrieve ancient DNA from six samples taken from Dragon Man’s surviving tooth and the cranium’s petrous bone, a dense piece at the base of the skull that’s ...

After several failed attempts, the researchers managed to extract genetic material from the fossilized cranium — nicknamed Dragon Man — linking it to an enigmatic group of early humans known as ...

You never know what you’ll find when cleaning out your garage, but I doubt you can top this: A few years ago, researchers uncovered a more than 120-year-old X-ray machine in the back of a Dutch ...

Scatter due to interaction of photons with the imaged object is a fundamental problem in X-ray Computed Tomography (CT). It manifests as various artifacts in the reconstruction, making its abatement ...