The unexpected discovery may provide scientists with new insights into how cancer develops — and how to combat it.

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

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

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

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 ...

Yale scientists have discovered a promising way to trigger immune responses against certain tumors, using a lupus-related antibody that can slip, undetected, into "cold" tumors and flip on an immune ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...

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 ...