A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...

Cells do more than carry out chemical reactions. New theoretical work suggests they may also generate usable electrical ...

Cells in the body have to move around in order to do their jobs. During development, for instance, cells are distributed to create and grow tissue. And in the event of an immune response, different ...

When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...

Cells are constantly on the move, whether in a developing embryo or metastatic cancer. But how do cells adapt to new environments they encounter? Traditionally, scientists have believed that cells ...

What researchers know of human cells is pieced together like a scrapbook full of snapshots: division here, fertilization there, with maybe a bit of differentiation in between. While scientists know ...

Weighing a single living cell sounds like a party trick, yet the numbers involved are so small that they push the limits of ...

Scientists are looking for answers about how these confounding trips, known as metastases, occur throughout the human body Illustration of a human cancer cell Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Back in ...