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

Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative computational method, called ddHodge, that can reconstruct ...

As 2025 comes to a close, the editors at The Scientist asked researchers to reflect on the biggest breakthroughs in cell biology this year. They named advances in everything from embryo models for ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

Biologists have long treated the cell as a chemical factory, but a new wave of research is forcing a rethink of that familiar ...

Cells degrade components that are no longer needed through autophagy. New results show that a weak molecular interaction is essential for this process. By modifying this interaction, it is possible to ...

Cancer therapy and synthetic biology are converging around a shared problem that has long frustrated oncologists and ...

Fluorescence-based imaging methods have recorded many details of cell dynamics and behavior, but the full 3D orientation and position of fluorescently marked ensembles has remained difficult to ...

Using DNA and proteins, scientists have created new synthetic cells that act like living cells. Blurring the line between artificial and living materials, these cells can be reprogrammed to perform ...

“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...