Visualizing cells after editing specific genes can help scientists learn new details about the function of those genes. But ...

A team of researchers at Åbo Akademi University in Finland made a surprising discovery. They found that Talin-1, a protein ...

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out ...

Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are ...

Jan. 28, 2025 — A team of stem cell scientists have successfully used embryonic stem cell engineering to create a bi-paternal mouse -- a mouse with two male parents -- that lived until adulthood.

Andrew Teschendorff, Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is developing computational systems-biological tools to ...

Cell biology is the discipline of biological sciences that studies the structure, physiology, growth, reproduction and death of cells. Research in cell biology uses microscopic and molecular tools ...

Hungarian researchers at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University and the HUN-REN Center for Energy Research have shown that the leaves ...

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Scientists reveal how filopodia help cancer spread. The breakthrough could improve treatments that stop cancer cells from invading tissues.

NAD, a vital molecule for cellular energy and DNA repair, plays a central role in aging and diseases like cancer and ...

Most animal, plant and fungal cells contain organelles called mitochondria. These descendants of a primordial bacterial ...