For human health, prematurely aging cells are a big problem. When a cell ages and stops growing, its function changes, which ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...

Engineers have derived potent new antibiotics from a frog's secretions. The new molecules demonstrated capabilities on par with existing last-resort antibiotics, without harming human cells or ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves.

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have captured images of the microscopic ...

The lab of Dan Xu, PhD, assistant professor at The Hormel Institute, has published a groundbreaking study in Cell Metabolism, ...

Halting the relentless march of so-called 'zombie cells' that drive aging and age-related diseases could be a step closer ...

Two scientists and an editor spent six months investigating so-called paper mills, which churn out bogus scientific papers ...

Laser Biomedical Research Center, G. R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States ...