One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...

Electricity has always been central to how life works, from the firing of neurons to the beating of the heart, but new ...

Human bodies are usually described as chemical engines, powered by glucose and oxygen. Yet a wave of new research suggests ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on the discovery of microRNA, a molecule that governs how cells in the ...

Cells in the body have to move around in order to do their jobs. During development, for instance, cells are distributed to create and grow tissue. And in the event of an immune response, different ...

Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

Researchers found in mice that multiple nutrients and cancer cell characteristics work together to control the spread of ...