Scientists have discovered a defensive method of cells that resembles Spiderman shooting his web to ensnare enemies. These ...

Photoreceptors are specialized cells in the eye that convert light energy into neural signals. Several diseases that cause irreversible vision loss, including age-related macular degeneration, ...

A growing body of experimental work on how single bacteria sense and respond to their environment has reopened a ...

On the flipside, if telomeres are too long, it can also spell trouble because cancer cells require long telomeres to become ...

Human cells can possibly sense far beyond surfaces they touch, with cancer cells being able to probe about 10 microns ahead, ...

For decades, lab-grown cells have been studied in materials that don't reflect the softness and flexibility of human tissue.

Researchers at the Earlham Institute, the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University analyzed gut cells to understand ...

Japan has approved two stem cell-based therapies for treating Parkinson's disease and heart failure in a world first, through ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists led by Joseph Bass, MD, Ph.D., the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Endocrinology and ...

Errors in chromosome segregation cause more than 80% of early human embryos to contain cells with an incorrect number of chromosomes, a phenomenon called aneuploidy. While aneuploid cells are normally ...