These CENP-A proteins ensure that divided genetic information is kept intact during mitosis.

The prosecution is expected to wrap up its case in the murder trial of Travis Lofton on Thursday after a full day of ...

Immune cells are capable of detecting infections just like a sniffer dog, using special sensors known as Toll-like receptors, ...

But the 19th-century American poet may just as well have been referring to cells. Cells are both the smallest biological unit ...

Model used to create a cellular 'hologram' of a mouse embryo could be used to visualize development in any species.

A Japanese team has developed a technique to insert chloroplasts isolated from algae into animal cells, a feat that could ...

Within multicellular organisms, tissues are organized communities of cells that work together to carry out a specific function. The exact role of a tissue in an organism depends on what types of ...

Various types of fuel cells exist, but the one automakers are primarily focusing on for fuel cell cars is one that relies on a proton-exchange membrane, or PEM. In the generic PEM fuel cell ...

The best solar cells can wring out nearly half that light energy as electricity. It happens like this: A photon from the sun strikes the solar panel's photoactive layer, which "knocks" an electron ...

The cellphone ban going into effect at hundreds of Los Angeles public schools next year will look different from one campus ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have discovered a way ovarian tumors cripple immune cells: by tampering with their ability ...