Scientists uncover a metabolic vulnerability in aging cells that could be key to restoring resilience and combating ...

The tumor microbiota—which includes bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microorganisms present in tumor tissue—is now ...

You probably learned most of these terms back in school - things like DNA, mitochondria, or photosynthesis. They sounded ...

A growing body of peer-reviewed research is building the case that single-celled organisms, creatures with no brain, no ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan have revealed that cells use a previously unknown feat of molecular craftsmanship to help protect their larger host organisms. The building blocks required ...

COURTESY OF ELANA FERTIG Wu reflects on Fertig's research studying cancer using computational approaches including spatial biology. “The [pancreatic] tumor has a very dense, immunosuppressive ...

Illumina on Tuesday unveiled what it calls the world’s largest functional cell dictionary that, when paired with artificial intelligence, will help accelerate drug discovery. Dubbed the Billion Cell ...

Life’s fundamental structure is the cell, and so the main things that a cell does — processing biomolecules, growing, replicating its genetic material and producing a new body — are considered ...

Researchers are increasingly shifting from simple to complex models to better recapitulate diseases. As they move from immortalized cell lines to more physiologically relevant systems such as ...

Many winners of the annual Lasker Awards have gone on to win a Nobel Prize in medicine or other fields. Lucy Shapiro of Stanford University was honored for her 55-year career investigating how ...

Single-cell technologies have revolutionized our ability to interrogate biological systems at unprecedented resolution, revealing complex cellular heterogeneity and dynamic processes that underlie ...