In laboratories, some are cultivating human brain cells to transform them into biological circuits for supercomputers—a ...

A hidden structure inside the cell is rewriting how scientists understand leukemia. Beneath the microscope, what looked like ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

This monumental scientific achievement occurred within a context of intense international collaboration, rapid technical ...

A human cell is a Rube Goldberg machine like no other, full of biological chain reactions that make the difference between life and death. Understanding these delicate relationships and how they go ...

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Using sophisticated RNA sequencing technology, biomedical researchers can measure the activity of our genes across millions ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a ...

Every second, millions of blood cells are produced in the human body, and about 90% of the cells replaced daily are blood ...

Before cells can divide by mitosis, they first need to replicate all of their chromosomes, so that each of the daughter cells can receive a full set of genetic material. Scientists have until now ...

Type 1 diabetes is caused by an insufficient production of the hormone insulin by cells in the pancreas called beta cells and ...

The observed cell structure at the nanoscale is consistent with the known heterogeneity of cells, thus validating the new method. "We could also vary the measurement parameters in order to control how ...