The new collaboration allows scientists, including those in underserved regions such as Africa, to collect and process ...

The profile for this week is on Reading Memorial High School Senior Eathan Cannon. He has immense creativity and dedication ...

Nearly every cell in your body depends on mitochondria to survive and function properly. Mitochondria provide 90% of our ...

Dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) are a type of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) found in the dental pulp, the innermost part of the ...

They derive their energy from differences in the concentration of hydrogen ions across some of these membranes ...

Some human organs, such as kidneys and lungs, have back-ups. Some can be lost with little consequence—the spleen, for example ...

The amount of any given protein in a cell has to be controlled to keep its levels within a range required for healthy ...

Carriers of Robertsonian chromosomes are often unaware they’re different. Although generally healthy, they can be infertile ...

Scientists have mapped underappreciated scaffolding cells in skin, known as fibroblasts. They show for the first time how fibroblasts go ‘rogue’ in many different diseases affecting multiple organs – ...

For immune cells, the actin cytoskeleton is more than a structural scaffold. Immune cells can migrate to sites of infection ...

From CASP to the Virtual Cell Challenge, researchers are leveraging science competitions and high-risk, high-reward grants to ...

In their quest for safe, mass-producible artificial blood, geneticists have long struggled. Our limited knowledge of genetic ...