One of the longstanding challenges in chemical biology has been finding ways to directly observe biological processes at work ...

Imagine cells navigating through a complex maze, guided by chemical signals and the physical landscape of their environment.

A new study integrated mathematical modeling with advanced imaging to discover that the physical shape of the fruit fly egg chamber, combined with chemical signals, significantly influences how cells ...

Imagine cells navigating through a complex maze, guided by chemical signals and the physical landscape of their environment.

A January executive order by President Donald Trump designates people as female if they make the “large” reproductive cell (the egg) and male if they make the ...

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Mapping a human cell gives researchers a view of subcellular architecture and sheds light on how cancer develops.

The opioid crisis has made it even more urgent to come up with novel approaches to treating suffering. Finally there’s ...

New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.

As the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of scientists in the ...

Night-vision contact lenses Scientists have created contact lenses that can give people super-vision, according to a study published in the journal Cell ... emeritus of biology at Northern ...

May 21, 2025 — A team of scientists has answered a long-standing question in cell biology, uncovering how the cell's main energy currency, ATP, is transported into ...