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

It is in complex animals that organs come into their own as a plethora of sophisticated, functional entities. How large that ...

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 – ...

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 ...

The human genome comprises approximately 3 billion chemical "letters" (A, T, C, and G in humans). To fit inside almost every cell in our body, this code is organised into 23 pairs of chromosomes that ...

Researchers found cells that ‘fired’ in pattern that mirrored mileage clock by ticking along with distance travelled ...

A new study, led by researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts think they might even survive right up until the Sun dies.

In the march of metastasis, a molecular trail of crumbs guides some cancer cells from the primary tumor to establish new ...