One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...

Living cells may generate electricity through the natural motion of their membranes. These fast electrical signals could play ...

Electricity has always been central to how life works, from the firing of neurons to the beating of the heart, but new ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by ...

Scientists have found that combining silybin with carvedilol works far better against liver fibrosis than either drug alone.

Gastric cancer cells can activate KRAS-driven signals, enabling autonomous tumor growth by producing their own WNT proteins. New research reveals how gastric cancer cells exploit WNT signaling for ...

It turns out sleeping isn’t just about resting your eyes, as a new study found that even ancient creatures without eyes — or even brains — need it too.

Biologists have long treated cell membranes as passive barriers, thin skins that separate the chemistry of life from the ...

Over the past year, most of your body has replaced itself cell by cell. What can we learn from other animals’ dramatic feats ...

We’re heartened to see even the smallest increase in human dignity behind bars, like the earned living unit at Stillwater ...

The Greenland shark is thought to live for about 400 years but somehow its eyes appear to barely deteriorate, according to a ...