Scientists can peer into cells to get a limited view of their activity using microscopes and other tools. However, cells and ...
An international group of researchers led by Pompeu Fabra University has discovered the nanomachine that controls ...
When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...
Cells have always hummed with activity. They make their own energy, package it into molecules like ATP, and spend it ...
A human cell is a Rube Goldberg machine like no other, full of biological chain reactions that make the difference between life and death. Understanding these delicate relationships and how they go ...
Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as "miracle" cells –ones that can grow into any other type of cell in our bodies, promising revolutionary medical treatments. However, ...
A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...
Biologists have long treated the cell as a chemical factory, but a new wave of research is forcing a rethink of that familiar ...
The exchange of cells between a mother and a fetus is a well-documented phenomenon that scientists have known about for more ...