A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has uncovered the atomic structure of a protein complex pivotal to ...

The glycocalyx surrounds each cell in the human body like a coat. This complex sugar layer plays a key role in the ...

The map charts 200,000 cells, 523 million synapses (the connections between neurons) and more than two miles of axons (the part of a neuron that passes on the electrical impulses).

It's no coincidence that our bodies feel a little creakier as we age. The trillions of cells that make up our skeleton age too, and some change in ways that weaken the very structure of our bones.