Cells are not immortal, and that is a good thing. After a certain number of divisions, many human cells stop multiplying for ...

An international research team involving the German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

Researchers have characterised the structure and function of a key protein that helps breast cancer cells survive.

Researchers created pea-sized brain structures from stem cells to study neural firing patterns, correctly identifying bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

In a decades-long effort, researchers have discovered how to tweak the molecular pathways that turn heart muscle motors up or ...

One of the most exciting advances in cancer treatments in the past decade is the development of T cell immunotherapies, in which a patient's own immune system is trained to recognize and attack ...

Scientists have identified a small flaw in the enzyme GPX4 that prevents neurons from defending themselves. This mutation, ...

Scientists have discovered that T cell receptors activate through a hidden spring-like motion that had never been seen before ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

A University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) study, published in Nature Communications, uncovers how ...