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Social media influencers are turning cord blood storage into a booming business. But many claims remain far ahead of science.

Researchers at the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan, and The University of Tokyo, Japan, ...

Our bodies are crackling with energy, and our cells make use of that energy using methods honed over billions of years of evolution. However, a new study suggests that cells could possibly be ...

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In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old African American mother, became an essential tool that helped the biomedical field flourish ...