Scientists at Feinberg are reshaping scientific understanding of the cell's tiniest components—structures once thought to be ...

In recent years, the field of stem cell and developmental biology has seen remarkable breakthroughs that have deepened our understanding of how organisms grow, age and regenerate, with major ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, scientists have developed the world’s pioneer “living computer” made entirely of cells. This ...

There’s unexpected movement in the world of cell biology — specifically, with the energy factories known as mitochondria. Ever since they were discovered in the mid-nineteenth century, mitochondria ...

In a new study published in Science Advances Sept. 10, a team of UC Davis researchers tracked the movement of fluorescent ...

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 ...

Researchers reveal epigenetic memory works like a dimmer switch, enabling more cell types than previously recognized.

By tracking the fate of individual embryonic stem cells, researchers have found that endoderm cells—early embryonic cells ...

Dr. McAdams, a physicist at Stanford, was struck by the way biologists drew figures filled with arrows to show how different ...

The story of the princess and the pea evokes an image of a highly sensitive royal young woman so refined, she can sense a pea under a stack of mattresses.

Autophagy—meaning "self-eating" in Greek—is a fundamental cellular mechanism that preserves cell health by recycling and ...

Researchers have developed a new drug that regrows hair by reactivating dormant hair follicle cells. The approach is ...