A cell can act in astonishingly complex ways. It must decide for itself whether to grow and multiply, rest, specialize, age ...

Hypertonic solutions have more dissolved stuff (like salt) than the inside of cells, causing water to leave the cells and ...

Researchers are gaining insights into how external factors like air pollutants, diet and medications, and even microbes in ...

The next time you crave a sweet treat, go ahead and buy a bag of jellybeans—guilt free. Your indulgence will be in the ...

A woman's fertility declines with age, which is often attributed to a fall in egg number and quality, but the environment of ...

It all comes down to something called the osmotic pressure formula. This formula helps explain how water moves in and out of ...

Proper protein localization in a cell is vital for function. A method to spatially map proteins in cells could lead to new insights into health and disease.

New research shows lymph nodes aren’t just cancer bystanders, they’re the command centers fueling immune attacks. Surgically removing them along with tumors may weaken treatment, while preserving them ...

A new study, led by researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, captured details of glioblastoma that had never before been seen ...

Many winners of the annual Lasker Awards have gone on to win a Nobel Prize in medicine or other fields. Lucy Shapiro of Stanford University was honored for her 55-year career investigating how ...

What just happened? Researchers at University College London have developed a new type of solar cell capable of efficiently generating power from indoor light, a breakthrough that could reduce ...

University of Oxford-led research finds low-dose rapamycin functions as a genomic protector in aging human immune cells, lowering DNA damage. The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a central ...