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 ...

Susan Lois Hamilton, chair of the Department of Integrated Physiology, received her Ph.D. in biophysics from the University ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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

A team of local businesses, volunteers and the Rural Outreach Center came together to provide a new furnace and home repairs for a Colden family ensuring warmth for the winter. As shutdown becomes 2nd ...

Mutations drive evolution, but they can also be risky. New research led by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, published Nov. 10 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...