Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During ...

Calcium (Ca2+) drives many cellular functions, though the way it controls quality of proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum ...

Eleven black-footed ferrets were born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo facility in Virginia, marking a big step in cloning ...

Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative computational method, called ddHodge, that can reconstruct ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

Scientists successfully extract RNA from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, thylacine, revealing how its genes functioned before its extinction.

Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

A combination of two classical biological laws, the global constraint principle delves deeper into complex biological ...

T his past year, we explored a lot of new cell biology research—from cancer to plants to microbes, and more! It’s hard to ...