Naturally occurring calcium channels act as pores on the membranes of excitable cells, such as those found in nerves and ...

The microbiome—the trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live quietly in our body—plays a crucial role in shaping human health by providing a variety of micronutrients necessary for vital ...

A new study published in Nature Biotechnology shows that stem cell differentiation is linked to cellular structures called ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a new technique for tagging senescent cells with DNA aptamers to identify and characterize these ...

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs ...

For much of the 20th century it was thought that the adult brain was incapable of regeneration. This view has since shifted dramatically and neurogenesis – the birth of new neurons – is now a widely ...

If you took high school biology, you probably learned about cell division: a crucial process in all life forms officially called mitosis. For over one hundred years, students have learned that during ...

A centimeter of hair captures about a month’s worth of biological data, so doctors can test hair for drug use, poisonings, ...