University of Queensland scientists have cracked a long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics, showing that nuclear polarization ...

Scientists reveal the role of hidden microbes called Asgard archaea in the origins of complex life, challenging long-held ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Just as cities must carefully manage the flow of cars in and out of downtown, cells regulate the movement of molecules into ...

Researchers from Northwestern University have stumbled upon a previously unobserved function of a protein found in the cell ...

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is known to cause DNA damage, and while that damage may accumulate and eventually lead to diseases ...

In a novel theory, scientists at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute propose a unifying explanation for the molecular chaos driving Alzheimer's disease. The condition causes widespread ...

One of the key challenges of the modern genomics era is studying the thousands of genes in a single human cell at scale. To ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Glioblastoma stem cells with fluorescent labeling for prion protein (red), CD44 protein (green), and cell nucleus (blue) ...