Discover how snowflake yeast defies expectations, growing exponentially due to physical processes, challenging traditional views on evolution.

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

“Our findings show that the genetic underpinnings of cell-to-cell cohesion and segregation—the ability for different cells to sort themselves into separate regions within a multicellular mass—existed ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

If you’re one of the folks who looks forward to pumpkins every fall, the long summer wait can be tough. For farmers, the ...

More recently, though, I’ve noticed that microalgae are popping up more and more, to the point that I started to wonder: What ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand ...

The time it takes to grow new skin for burns victims could be improved thanks to a new method of cell cultivation using algae ...

An international research team has uncovered a surprising way compartments within cells work together to defend themselves ...

Biological systems are highly complex due to the intricate spatial organizations of different types of cells and the heterogeneous nature of living cells. Characterizing the phenotypic behavior of ...

In this Opinion article, Stephen Galli and colleagues discuss the recent evidence that mast cells can have negative, as well as positive, immunomodulatory functions, and suggest that mast cells ...

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...