This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has shown that nerve ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that one of the body's most fundamental biological processes—how red blood ...

Dysfunctions of the tiny cell processes (primary cilia) of the pancreatic beta cells could be a cause of type 2 diabetes. Little is known about the structure and function of these cilia. An ...

A recent study published in Cell Death & Disease suggests that specific cellular abnormalities in the brain associated with ...

Cells can spontaneously change shape even without external signals, but the underlying mechanisms behind this form of ...

The mechanical process of cell division exerts powerful, if microscopic, forces. How do the molecular machines that power it ...

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Volvox parent spheroid: Numerous individual cells can be seen across the entire surface as magenta-colored dots. Developing daughter spheroids appear as a few larger clusters with very small dots. The ...