A new organelle has been discovered in human cells — and scientists call it a "hemifusome."Like the full-size organs in our ...

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

Even after decades of research, biologists are still uncovering surprises about the human body. A team of researchers from ...

Cells are the smallest part of the body that functions independently. The body is made up of about 100 million million cells, 90 per cent of each one is water. The largest cell in the body is the ...

A new study, published recently in Nature Communications, offers the first-ever map of which parts of the Chikungunya virus ...

A team of international researchers led by scientists at City of Hope provides the most thorough account yet of an elusive ...

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.