Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

A new study published in Nature offers the most detailed map to date of how individual cell types in the brain change with age. Scientists analyzed over 1.2 million brain cells from young and aged ...

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it activates other proteins involved in this process. Plk1 is also ...

Bone can heal itself, but not always in the ways we expect. Some animals regrow entire limbs. Others, like humans, can only ...

AI systems already work their magic in many areas of biomedical science, helping to solve protein structure, discover hidden ...

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought ...

Roksana Riddle and Christopher H. Contag from Michigan State University discuss the concept of endosymbiosis, how it has ...

Suffice it to say, the hidden hand of Nature nudges you, whether you like it or not, down the self-similar branching paths of ...

Biological computers using lab-grown human neurons are becoming commercial reality, promising lower energy use and better ...

Proteins in the sheath of cellular protrusions control how effectively cells can adhere to surfaces. Biological cells often ...

Japanese researchers used a nonviral piggyBac system to genetically modify cynomolgus monkeys, enabling more accurate disease ...

A study focusing on analyzing cell models found universality in their movement—an important discovery that could impact both ...