Ever wanted to ride a rollercoaster through the inside of a bacterial cell? Now you can, at least in Minecraft. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign created CraftCells – ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how molecular "traffic controllers" in cells influence aging and cellular ...

Single-cell sequencing can yield a treasure trove of information on immune cell population characteristics and behavior.

Aging cells secrete substances known to promote the growth of cancer cells. The development of drugs that can selectively kill these cells or inhibit the secretion of substances is ongoing. The latest ...

DNA methylation is a critical underlying mechanism for a broad range of cellular processes. Researchers study single cell methylation to gain a deeper understanding of the biological basis of health ...

The CRISPR gene editing technique has had a dramatic influence on biomedical research, and has even been applied to a few humans to treat disease. Since its invention, scientists have improved, ...

When gene therapy was first proposed in the 1970s, the idea seemed straightforward but revolutionary: replacing defective genes with functional ones to cure a disease. But over the decades, this ...

Ichthyosporeans Sphaeroforma arctica and Chromosphaera perkinsii undergoing mitosis, depicted as two halves of a cell, rendered in Haeckel-inspired tones and a naturalist style. Cell division is one ...

The brain shows a capacity to recover from traumatic injury, which somewhat contradicts the widely accepted idea that neurons ...

Melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer. Although less common, it is the most serious due to its high potential for metastasis. Despite the health benefits of sunlight, prolonged exposure ...

We are excited to share groundbreaking advancements in the realm of solar energy technology, particularly highlighting an emerging thinner-film solar cell: Cu 2 BaSn(S,Se) 4. This innovative solar ...