Drug developers are racing to design molecules that coax our cells into burning more energy even when we are sitting still, ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have created a method that makes it possible to transform the brain's support cells ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed two powerful computational tools that could transform how researchers ...

The journey started with an enigma in the zebrafish embryo: some endothelial cells, actively involved in the initial stages of the development of the earliest blood vessels, were dividing in an ...

Living cells may generate electricity through the natural motion of their membranes. These fast electrical signals could play ...

Ribosomes—the tiny factories that build proteins in our cells—don't all work with the same efficiency. Researchers from Japan ...

In the expansive world of regenerative medicine and biochemistry, few molecules have generated as much sustained excitement ...

Gut support cells communicate with surprising precision – like brain neurons – using tiny extensions to send instructions to the stem cells responsible for maintaining and healing the intestine. The ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and AlveoliX have developed the first human 'lung-on-chip' model using stem cells ...

As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, scientists are looking to bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, as an alternative.