Scientists found that embryonic skin cells “whisper” through faint mechanical tugs, using the same force-sensing proteins ...

Your body is like a busy city with construction crews working every day. These crews are your stem cells. They fix damage, ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand ...

Scientists say they captured 3D images of a new organelle they're calling a "hemifusome," which may be a recycling center in ...

Single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) has spent the past decade maturing into a foundational technology. Over that time, the ...

Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer‐promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the ...

A fertilized egg somehow manages to build skin, brain, and blood cells within days. But how? New tech called LoxCode is ...

Bombay have identified a previously unknown trigger of diabetes in collagen -- the most abundant protein in the human body -- ...

Researchers have created over 400 distinct types of human nerve cells in vitro, vastly expanding the diversity available for ...

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

Cells, including those in the human body, might have the ability to "learn," a capability once thought to be exclusive to ...