How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast ...

Over the past year, most of your body has replaced itself cell by cell. What can we learn from other animals’ dramatic feats ...

A small tweak to mitochondrial energy production led to big gains in health and longevity. Mice engineered to boost a protein that helps mitochondria work more efficiently lived longer and showed ...

Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative computational method, called ddHodge, that can reconstruct ...

Living cells may generate electricity through the natural motion of their membranes. These fast electrical signals could play ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have created a method that makes it possible to transform the brain’s support cells ...

Ribosomes—the tiny factories that build proteins in our cells—don't all work with the same efficiency. Researchers from Japan ...

Scientists have discovered that T cell receptors activate through a hidden spring-like motion that had never been seen before. This breakthrough may help explain why immunotherapy works for some ...

Until now, cells dividing by mitosis were thought to grow round and then split into two identical, spherical daughter cells. New research has found that some cells are isomorphic, meaning they retain ...

With roughly 2,000 giant pandas remaining in the wild, scientists have spent the last several decades looking for new ways to help the iconic black-and-white bears stave off extinction. And now, it ...

Scientists are still debating whether the human brain is capable of growing new cells past childhood. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Biologists have long treated cell membranes as passive barriers, thin skins that separate the chemistry of life from the ...