An international group of researchers led by Pompeu Fabra University has discovered the nanomachine that controls ...

Every time our body encounters a new disease-causing agent, a crucial defense system called adaptive immunity comes into play ...

Scientists have transformed enigmatic cell structures, called vaults, into storage units for messenger-RNA molecules made in ...

Key market opportunities in the global competent cells market include rising demands in genetic engineering and synthetic ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Illumina has unveiled a database of genomic alterations, called the Billion Cell Atlas, that can be used to identify and ...

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents ...

Inflammation hasto fight pathogens fast—but it can't get out of control. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now deciphered in more detail how the organism masters this ...

A giant functional atlas of immune cells in a Chinese cohort reveals crucial differences with European and Japanese data sets ...

The constant, energy-driven motion inside living cells may generate electricity in a way no one fully recognized before.

Cells do more than carry out chemical reactions. New theoretical work suggests they may also generate usable electrical ...

Randomness inside cells can decide whether a cancer returns after chemotherapy or whether an infection survives antibiotics.