For example, sensory cells in the skin respond to the pressure ... detect changes in blood pressure — information that the body uses to maintain a consistent cardiac load. Cells have proteins ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ...

Cells in those parts of the body constantly use oxygen ... Look at the images below to see an example of how coffee particles diffuse in a cup of water. Air that is breathed in is around 21% ...

For example, humans possess a higher proportion of rapidly conducting pain-sensing neurons, a feature that likely reflects ...

How these body-level asymmetries arise presents enduring mysteries ... It’s known that the ciliate Paramecium tends to spiral to the left as it swims, for example; neutrophil-like cells—a cell line ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Your cells constantly generate and conduct electricity that runs through your body to perform various functions. One such example of this bioelectricity is the nerve signals that ...

The human body uses three types of molecules to ... is very important for cells that can grow and divide fast. Examples of these cell types include white blood cells, stem cells, and some ...