Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

Like all complex organisms, every human originates from a single cell that multiplies through countless cell divisions.

If Stephen Quake gets his way, biologists in the future will spend a lot less time wielding pipettes. “Our goal,” he says, ...

Cell biology is the discipline of biological sciences that studies the structure, physiology, growth, reproduction and death of cells. Research in cell biology uses microscopic and molecular tools ...

Cornell researchers have found a new and potentially more accurate way to see what proteins are doing inside living cells - using the cells' own ...

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for ...

Every day, our bodies perform around 330 billion cell divisions to keep us alive and functioning. These divisions rely on the ...

Researchers identified two genetically distinct brain cell types that help categorize odors, triggering either positive or ...

More than 20 lakh people from tribal areas have been screened since we started the sickle cell anaemia project eight years ...

Researchers have identified a rare cell type and the signaling pathway behind how lung damage from toxins like wildfire smoke ...

The ability to analyze gene expression at the single-cell level — known as single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) — has transformed life sciences ...

Researchers have created an atlas of human cell cycle gene activity, revealing that some genes that control the cell cycle ...