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

An international study led by the University of Colorado Cancer Center has uncovered why a widely used treatment for acute ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Sterols are among the most abundant lipids in eukaryotic cells, yet are synthesized through notoriously long, complex ...

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 ...