Despite the immense amount of genetic material present in each cell, around 3 billion base pairs in humans, this material ...

The study, published in British scientific journal Nature, suggests that the disease may begin in basal stem cells — ...

Physicists Maria Goeppert Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen develop a theory of the nucleus as composed of shells of protons and neutrons. It explains why nuclei ...

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

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

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

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...