New research reveals how cell sizes and clumping create sharp animal coat patterns, enhancing our understanding of nature's ...

A protein involved with cell death can be manipulated to slow or reverse tumor growth, a pair of new studies in mice found.

From leopards to zebras, science explain how nature’s chemical dances create spots, stripes and swirls across animal skins ...

The first animals must also have invented ways to produce the many different kinds of cells we have today; muscle cells, nerve cells, egg cells and sperm to name a few. The division of labour among ...

There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists.

Rockefeller scientists uncovered how hair follicle stem cells can switch from growing hair to repairing skin when nutrients ...

A new study shows, for the first time, that cow cells can naturally become immortal—continuing to divide indefinitely without genetic modification or any abnormal transformation. This overturns ...

Nature creates incredible works of living art through its many different animal patterns, such as a leopard’s spots or a ...

The government just unveiled a sweeping roadmap aiming to cut the use of animals in major safety tests by at least 35% by ...

The Hippo signaling pathway that helps control tissue size in animals and malfunctions in cancers already existed before ...

Scientists have created the world’s first mosquito cell map, revealing how these insects spread diseases like dengue and Zika.