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.

We usually assume that tissue folding (the process that creates organs, embryos, and the deep ridges of the human brain) requires complex internal control. So then how does one of the world’s simplest ...

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 ...

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents ...

New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 ...

A giant functional atlas of immune cells in a Chinese cohort reveals crucial differences with European and Japanese data sets ...

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 ...