Proteins in the cell can form tiny liquid droplets that act as a smart molecular glue, discover researchers. Clinging to the ends of filaments called microtubules, this smart liquid ensures the ...

Scientists found a previously unrecognized organelle in fruit flies, a thoroughly studied organism. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Average location of 17 structures, each a different color, inside of a human cell. (Allen Institute Image / Matheus P. Viana et al. ) Our cells are built from smaller structures that specialize in the ...

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Most life on earth today wouldn't exist without water, but new findings suggest rain may have started the whole process! Dan ...

"Single-cell transcriptomics allows us to identify cell types and their states and show how they respond to the loss of body parts at an individual level. In our study, we also combined this technique ...

I’d love to read a creepy science fiction story where people dissolve. I asked my friend Anders Omsland if that could happen. He’s a biomedical researcher at Washington State University. He told me a ...

About 1 million people in the U.S. live with multiple sclerosis, a chronic autoimmune disease that inflames the nervous ...

Groundbreaking research from NYU reveals non-neural human cells can remember chemical signals. This challenges the long-held belief that only the brain stores memories. Cells exposed to spaced signals ...

“People often think about the genome as the blueprint of the organism, but that’s not really correct,” Steven Quake told reporters at a Science press briefing earlier this week. “The genome is more of ...

A Minnesota science teacher in the Saint Paul Public Schools district lambasted cell biology lessons, particularly on mitochondrion, for containing "capitalist" propaganda, Fox News Digital found.