A study published in Cell Research advances a central idea in stem cell biology by identifying a checkpoint that controls the ...

WEHI researchers have led a major global effort to create the first authoritative atlas for a class of enzymes that regulate almost every cellular process in the human body. Published in Cell, the ...

Cells aren’t as passive as scientists once thought—they actively create internal currents to move proteins quickly and ...

A new Yale study of roundworms, a species with the unique ability to regenerate, reveals that disruptions in the body's ...

Chips seeded with the astronauts’ bone marrow cells circled the moon to help probe how deep-space flight affects human ...

It can be estimated theoretically that more unique biological interactions exist than stars in our known universe. The ...

Stem cells in most organisms typically take cues from adjacent cells. But new research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research has found that stem cells in the freshwater planarian Schmidtea ...

Aging does not arrive all at once. It builds quietly across years, touching cells long before symptoms appear. Scientists ...

A new imaging approach is shedding light on one of cell biology’s most elusive questions: how lipids are organized and sorted within membranes.

Scientists in Canada have uncovered a surprising weakness in glioblastoma, one of the deadliest brain cancers. They found ...

A common vitamin may be quietly helping cancer cells evade death. The body depends on vitamin B2, also called riboflavin, but it cannot make the nutrient itself. That means it has to come from food, ...

A precision cancer strategy that selectively kills tumour cells while leaving healthy tissue intact may be within reach for the majority of colorectal cancer patients, according to new research ...