To ensure our bodies function correctly, the cells that compose them must operate properly. Imagine a cell as a bustling city ...

Complex sugar-protein molecules that sense external messages to help a cell grow or respond to its environment can now be ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

The goals of this project represent the culmination of more than two decades of 3D bioprinting innovation by Chen and his lab ...

Open the Youtube video Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off ...

Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside cells that form compartments with individual functions. For example, ...

A research team has found that specific immune cells can connect with muscle fibers in a lightning-fast, neuron-like way to promote healing. These cells deliver quick pulses of calcium, triggering ...

The image shows a metaphase spindle in a human ovarian cancer cell, surrounded by interphase cells. Microtubules are color-coded according to imaging depth, and chromosomes are shown in gray. Most ...

How do stem cells know what to become? Nearly three decades after scientists isolated the first human embryonic stem cells, researchers are still working hard to understand precisely how a single, ...

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch creator Derek Kolstad has reassured fans who are on the fence with the animated Netflix series over the decision to replace Sam Fisher's iconic voice actor Michael Ironside ...