The exchange of cells between a mother and a fetus is a well-documented phenomenon that scientists have known about for more ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Every person who has ever been pregnant leaves a biological trace that is far more intimate than a family photo album. During ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

For the first time, scientists have answered a longstanding question in cell biology about a partnership of proteins called ...

The constant, energy-driven motion inside living cells may generate electricity in a way no one fully recognized before.

Cells are crowded with proteins and nucleic acids. A new study measures subcellular densities across organisms to uncover how material is distributed. (Nanowerk News) Just as life pulsates in big ...

Inside every living cell, proteins and membranes are in constant motion, reshaping, colliding, and flexing as they keep an ...

Within tumors in the human body, there are immune cells (macrophages) capable of fighting cancer, but they have been unable ...

Researchers have developed experimental compounds that make cells burn more calories by subtly tweaking how mitochondria ...