Circadian rhythms are endogenous time-keeping mechanisms that regulate physiological processes in response to external light-dark cycles.

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.

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

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

Siegfried Musser, PhD, and his team in the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics at the Texas A&M College of Medicine have ...

The study published in Nature Communications reveals that crucial communication between mitochondria and the cell nucleus ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their independence in the course of evolution. Biologists are now examining the way in which ...

Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different sounds like keys on a ...