Scientists have fabricated micrometer-scale microstructures that can move, bend, and cluster without any onboard sensors, ...

Drug discovery can be an uphill battle, especially lately given recent upheaval at the FDA and muted investment activity. BioSpace spoke to four industry executives about key issues facing those ...

In February, HuffPost contributor Julie Kendrick reported on the "old person smell" phenomenon, wherein increased production ...

Cells aren’t as passive as scientists once thought—they actively create internal currents to move proteins quickly and ...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” tells the story of an ordinary African-American woman whose cells were taken without ...

We live in a world that constantly reminds us of what is wrong. The news cycle churns with conflict and crisis. Our bodies ...

Study in pet dogs found immune signatures that could inform more targeted treatments for an aggressive blood cancer ...

Notably, a previous test conducted by the state-owned VTT Technical Research Center of Finland proved that Donut Lab's cell ...

A simulated cell in the early stages of division. Left half shows cytoplasm (blue cubes), mRNA degradation machinery molecules (pink), and sugar transporters (brown). Right half adds the membrane ...

(Nanowerk News) By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell — from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division — scientists have opened a new frontier of ...

The team simulated a living cell at nanoscale resolution and recapitulated how every molecule within that cell behaved over the course of a full cell cycle. The work took many years: vast computer ...

The researchers, led by chemistry professor Zan Luthey-Schulten at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, present their findings in the journal Cell. In two videos, researchers describe the work ...