The animal kingdom is full of fascinating tricks for enduring sub-freezing temperatures. Birds, for example, often just take ...

Long before winter seals the forest under ice, certain frogs begin preparing for a transformation that defies basic biology.

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

An international group of researchers led by Pompeu Fabra University has discovered the nanomachine that controls ...

Scientists have transformed enigmatic cell structures, called vaults, into storage units for messenger-RNA molecules made in ...

Vitamin B12 is long understood as a vital nutrient required for red blood cell formation and nerve function, but a new ...

Scientists have uncovered a new way embryonic cells divide when conventional mechanisms fail. Cell division underpins all ...

AI has an "Achilles' heel": it often tries to decipher the cell like a person trying to understand a single word without ...

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 ...

UCSF scientists engineered old fibroblast cells to turn their genes on and off in the same way as young fibroblasts. The old ...

Cholera remains a major global public health challenge, with an estimated 1.3 to 4 million cases and tens of thousands of ...

Medical education has always relied on physical models to teach anatomy, but traditional options, such as cadavers or ...