In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

A 75-person team at Seattle's Allen Institute is embarking on a 10-year project called CellScapes to devise a mathematical ...

“During tissue formation, dynamic cell shape changes drive morphogenesis while asymmetric divisions create cellular diversity ...

A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began.

“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

K nowing the location of a gene within intact tissue or a single cell allows scientists to unlock unknown cellular functions.

Taste, pain, or response to stress—nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by molecular switches ...

The risk of cancer goes up with age, in part because aging impedes the body's ability to detect and destroy cells with damaged DNA. Aging also comes with cumulative damage to cells; low-grade, chronic ...

Lead author, PhD candidate Shayma Abukar (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and UCL Institute for Cardiovascular Science) said: “We are now working to understand the signals that ...

That's because sex — and gender roles, too —permeates all the way down to the most unreproductive of cell types. If you want to do science about animals including humans, sex as a biological ...