Scientists found that embryonic skin cells “whisper” through faint mechanical tugs, using the same force-sensing proteins ...

Plant and animal cells are both extremely important to the survival of millions of species and without them, life couldn’t ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing ...

During animal development, cells divide and arrange themselves in a coordinated way, eventually forming the embryo. The cells ...

Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly genetically identical cells. Depending on the organism, these cells ...

Vitamins got their name in the early 1900s when London-based Polish biochemist Casimir Funk—one of many scientists seeking ...

Scientists don’t completely understand how this kind of multicellularity evolved in animals. Cell-to-cell adhesion, or the ability for individual cells to stick to each other, certainly plays a role, ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

The first mice to be created from two fathers, a phenomenon known as androgenesis, have now produced healthy offspring for ...

While animal eggs await fertilization, their cell cycle needs to be halted. The molecule responsible for this arrest ? the cytostatic factor ? was first described in 1971. But its identity was not ...