When implanted into mice, the “pseudo-islets” helped treat the animals’ diabetes symptoms.

If the structures identified in a 2.1-billion-year-old rock are really signs of burrowing organisms, it would push back the earliest known mobile organisms by 1.5 billion years.

Pancreatic cells associated with cancer resemble celestial bodies as revealed by microscopy.

New studies suggest forebears’ age and physical proximity matter when it comes to their grandkids’ survival.

Sea fireflies spew a mucus with a chemical glow to lure mates and avoid being eaten.

Countries with populations whose average adult height grew late last century are more likely to have high rates of babies delivered surgically.

The same network of transcription factors may be responsible for both cleft palate and neural tube defects, according to a new study connecting mouse and human data.

A growing branch of research on how plants use exosomes to interact with their environment is opening up a new field of plant biology.

With genetic tweaks, researchers can coax corn and other cereals to take in more iron, but sometimes the plants rebel.