Understanding how heart muscle cells stop dividing and acquire the characteristics needed to sustain lifelong cardiac ...

For decades, scientists have accepted that the immune system naturally weakens with age. Georgia Tech biomedical engineer and ...

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," which enables researchers to better understand how human cells function and ...

A scientific review highlights how PIWI proteins and piRNAs regulate stem cell function, offering new epigenetic targets to ...

Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the first ...

All cells metabolize nutrients to generate the energy and molecular building blocks required for survival. Cancer cells, ...

When people think about health, they often focus on specific organs like the heart or brain. But many changes related to chronic conditions or ageing begin in the smallest units of your body — your ...

From ATP production to cellular repair, mitochondrial resilience may help determine how well cells age and which strategies ...

Most cancer deaths are caused not by the initial tumor but by the spread of cancer cells to distant organs in the process ...

Fluorescent dyes have long been used in biological research to identify and visualize structures within living cells.

Biomolecular condensates were long believed to be simple liquid blobs inside cells. Researchers have now uncovered that some are actually supported by fine protein filaments forming an internal ...