New findings show that cancer cells can invade new tissues while staying connected by taking sporadic, long leaps. This ...

histolytica’s gnarly strategy: The parasite has a tendency to cloak itself in remnants of dead human cells as a disguise against the body’s immune system. Now, microbiologists think they have ...

Entamoeba histolytica is a single-cell parasite that causes intestinal disease, but sometimes invades the body, attacking cells and creating liquefying abscesses. UC Davis parasitologist Katherine ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Until now, cells dividing by mitosis were thought to grow round and then split into two identical, spherical daughter cells.

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A cell culture plate with pluripotent stem cells, which can differentiate into any kind of cell in the body. National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences A treatment that could replenish ...

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Anderson Cooper reports on the migration of the monarch butterflies, an annual spectacle during which millions of butterflies begin their trek north from ...

When this happens, not only do your brain and ears perceive it, but your cells may also. Technically speaking, sound is a simple phenomenon, consisting of compressional mechanical waves ...

Painted ladies are the ultramarathoners of the butterfly world—even more so than monarchs. Scientists have long known about their globetrotting tendencies, but only recently have their exact ...

Scientists are looking for answers about how these confounding trips, known as metastases, occur throughout the human body Illustration of a human cancer cell Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Back ...

For over 150 years, scientists have known that wounds alter electric fields across skin cells, says cell biologist Min Zhao of the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. But they didn ...

The researchers collected blood samples before and after the plunges to look at how the participants’ cells responded to the cold plunges. “We found that in as little as four days, cold water ...