When the cell's recycling stations, the lysosomes, start leaking, it can become dangerous. Toxic waste risks spreading and ...

A Northwestern Medicine study has revealed a previously unknown connection between two fundamental cellular processes, ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on Earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

When tissue is severely damaged, surviving cells can respond in a concentrated burst of biological repair known as ...

Understanding how cells transform into specialized types during human development is a central challenge in biology. This complex process, known as cell differentiation, holds the key to understanding ...

The study, published in British scientific journal Nature, suggests that the disease may begin in basal stem cells — ...

Researchers from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society have unveiled fundamental new insights into the working ...

NASA scientists are sending three fundamental life science experiments onboard space shuttle Discovery in hopes of better understanding exactly how spaceflight affects cell growth and how cells fight ...

Multicellular organisms, including humans, can be incredibly complex even though they start from one fertilized cell. The many cells that compose the tissues and organs in a body are derived from ...

Natural killer cells, also referred to as NK cells, play several major roles in the body's defense against cancers like renal cell carcinoma. Natural killer cells, also referred to as NK cells, play ...

In the realm of high repetition rate lasers, Pockels cells emerge as quintessential components, wielding significant influence over laser performance and functionality. These electro-optic devices, ...