Animal cells have many small vacuoles within them while plant cells have one large one. The vacuole within a plant cell can ...

From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal ...

Tiny fat bubbles carrying gene therapy have successfully repaired DNA in the lungs and liver of animals with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency — a promising leap toward treating humans with this rare ...

Unlike spiders and scorpions, sea spiders didn’t go through ancient genome duplications, making them a rare window into how ...

A new drug originally developed to treat a different brain disease is now showing signs that it could help people with ...

An international research team has uncovered a surprising way compartments within cells work together to defend themselves ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

A newly found organelle, the hemifusome, helps manage cellular recycling. It may play a role in inherited diseases and open ...

For the first time, scientists have 3-D printed objects within living cells, including a 10-micrometer long elephant and tiny “barcodes” that could help track individual cells. Remarkably, many of the ...

The pig’s heart was graying rapidly, so McCully decided to try it. He loaded a syringe with the extracted mitochondria and ...

The particles in the cells' crypts, the researchers determined, are excess to the snake's requirements once it has extracted all it needs from the completely dissolved bones. The purpose of the ...

Research into the intestinal cells of Burmese pythons has revealed the existence of a previously unknown cell type, ...