Scientists announced the Biodiversity Cell Atlas project to map every cell type across all eukaryotic life on Earth.

Every time a eukaryotic cell divides, it faces a monumental challenge: It must carefully duplicate and divide its genetic ...

An innovative use of skin cells could provide a route for gay couples or women with fertility problems to have children that ...

Scientists have developed functional eggs from ordinary human skin cells, a proof of concept that could open up new ways to ...

Just as life pulsates in big vibrant cities, it also prospers in crowded environments inside cells. The interior of cells is ...

A scaling law relates the expected number of mutants to the total population size of cells in a spatially constrained but ...

“It’s possible that the mice weren’t seeing them,” admits Shin, “because the technique has involved a relatively small number of neurons, for technical limitations. But in the future, one could expand ...

These “zombie” cells are damaged yet refuse to die. Instead, they linger in the body, infect healthy cells, and can ...

A key switch for cellular energy balance has been discovered in cells: it could potentially become the target of new ...

Many winners of the annual Lasker Awards have gone on to win a Nobel Prize in medicine or other fields. Lucy Shapiro of Stanford University was honored for her 55-year career investigating how ...

University of Oxford-led research finds low-dose rapamycin functions as a genomic protector in aging human immune cells, lowering DNA damage. The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a central ...