From CASP to the Virtual Cell Challenge, researchers are leveraging science competitions and high-risk, high-reward grants to ...

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

Scientists discover nuclei aren’t the densest part of the cell. Optical imaging shows a surprising balance that may even ...

Physicist Arvind Murugan earns Schmidt Science Polymath award for work at intersection of physics, biology, computation and materials science ...

Scientists have developed functional eggs from ordinary human skin cells, a proof of concept that could open up new ways to ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the "dark ...

An ambitious and revolutionary initiative aims to map every cell of all eukaryotic life on Earth. The result will be a ...

The cell nucleus goes a long way during an immune response, both literally and figuratively. New research published in ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago have turned fluorescent proteins into biological qubits, enabling living cells to ...

More work needs to be done to create viable human embryos, but the method might someday be used in IVF to help infertile people and male couples.

Cancer cells transfer mitochondria through nanotubes to healthy neighboring cells, turning them into tumor-supporting accomplices, a new study shows.