The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...

The cell nucleus is considered to be the control center of vital cellular processes, but its material properties continue to puzzle scientists. An international research team has now developed a new ...

Even after decades of research, biologists are still uncovering surprises about the human body. A team of researchers from the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have ...

Inside human cells, biology has pulled off the ultimate packing job, figuring out how to fit six feet of DNA into a nucleus ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...

Before cells can divide by mitosis, they first need to replicate all of their chromosomes, so that each of the daughter cells can receive a full set of genetic material. Scientists have until now ...

When two cells "talk" to each other, they often do so through tiny channels called electrical synapses. Unlike chemical ...