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

Cells act as both building blocks and biological robots. Here's everything you need to know about what they do and their role in health and disease. When Walt Whitman wrote that he contains ...

To understand how cells work, biologists like to take them apart. By removing genes from cells in diverse combinations, researchers have now uncovered how different genes work together to keep cells ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on the discovery of microRNA, a molecule that governs how cells in the ...

EPFL researchers have discovered how cells help keep their protein levels steady even when their ability to make new proteins ...

STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - Two Americans and a Briton won the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for discovering a molecular switch that regulates how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, ...

Siddharta Mukherjee’s new study of how cells work reveals the complexities of the human body – and the science that could improve it. By Henry Marsh Ever since I was a medical student 50 years ago, I ...

All cancers begin in cells. Our bodies are made up of more than a hundred million million (100,000,000,000,000) cells. Cancer starts with changes in one cell or a small group of cells. Usually, we ...

Developing a vaccine is difficult at the best of times, but rarely have we been in a situation where basic knowledge about a virus has to be acquired so directly alongside the race to eradicate it. To ...