What's lurking in your freezer: a lasagna or deep-frozen pizza? Conservationists rely on freezers too—but they run much ...

Tick-borne encephalitis virus can infect the nervous system and cause life-threatening illness. Finding the cellular gateway ...

Carnegie Mellon scientists create AggreBots, tiny lung-cell robots powered by cilia with controlled motility.Word excerpt: ...

When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster ...

Bacterial fragments called peptidoglycans may influence daily sleep patterns and also affect the brain health cycle strongly.

Cellular differentiation of stem cells into specialized cells requires many steps, including division, to create more cells; fate determination, which is a commitment to a specific lineage or ...

Bees swarm the queen to protect her and start a new, more sustainable colony capable of producing the next generation of bees.

Plant scientists discovered hidden stem cell regulators tied to growth and crop size. Their breakthrough could transform how we grow food, fuel, and resilient harvests.

For years, the pancreas has been being taught in biology class as an easy system: insulin lowers blood sugar, and glucagon ...

Researchers found that zeaxanthin, long associated with eye health, may also boost the body’s immune response against cancer.

In the march of metastasis, a molecular trail of crumbs guides some cancer cells from the primary tumor to establish new ...

A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie ...