Cancer cells are subjected to high mechanical pressure that leads to a rupture of the nuclear envelope when migrating through ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the "dark genome" that are responsible for controlling how cells sense and respond to the ...

UCSF scientists discovered that an overlooked cell type in the brain plays a central role in healing traumatic brain injury.

Just as life pulsates in big vibrant cities, it also prospers in crowded environments inside cells. The interior of cells is ...

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in ...

A multinational research team has discovered a mysterious tubular structure — previously unknown in any organism — within ...

A team of researchers at DTU may have cracked one of the toughest nuts in sustainable energy: how to make fuel cells light ...