New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 ...

Cells spend energy not just on reactions, but on control. New research explains why staying stable comes with an unseen energy cost.

Metabolism, far from being just a housekeeping function, underlies all changes in cell size and function ...

A research team at The University of Osaka has found a novel pathway for depositing CENP-A into vertebrate centromeres, which ...

Cells have a variety of processes and pathways that can repair damage, remove trash and debris, and boost healing. Scientists have now discovered a novel process in which cells eliminate stuff, and ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer ...

Until now, it has been difficult to maintain retinal ganglion cells deep inside organoids over extended periods. The supply ...

Discover the challenges of acute myeloid leukaemia linked to inflammatory cell death and the quest for effective therapies.

Cell signalling pathways are central to maintaining cellular homeostasis and regulating essential functions such as proliferation, apoptosis, and repair. In both cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, ...

In some mammals, the timing of the normally continuous embryonic development can be altered to improve the chances of survival for both the embryo and the mother. This mechanism to temporarily slow ...

Despite the immense amount of genetic material present in each cell, around three billion base pairs in humans, this material ...