A collaborative French–Swiss study reveals a previously unknown role for astrocytes in the brain's information processing.

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things—including a crucial event that happened ...

An ambitious and revolutionary initiative aims to map every cell of all eukaryotic life on Earth. The result will be a ...

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, ...

Scientists have uncovered how a key type of immune cell adapts its behavior depending on the type of infection, paving the way for better vaccines and advancing research into immune-related diseases.

The award will allow researchers to investigate how physical forces influence the way cells move, grow, divide and respond to their surroundings, particularly in the context of diseases like cancer.

UCSF scientists discovered that an overlooked cell type in the brain plays a central role in healing traumatic brain injury.

Since their discovery in 2004, the grid cells in the brain, which are important for our orientation, have been regarded as a kind of "GPS in the head." However, scientists at the German Cancer ...

Follow along as Kuka’s Ed Volcic dissects the various components of a typical machine tool tending cell. A typical machine tool tending cell combines multiple technologies to operate efficiently. This ...

Knoepfler is STAT’s Lab Dish columnist and professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. Japanese regulators just quietly gave researchers there a historic OK to generate ...

Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...