Biologists have long treated cell membranes as passive barriers, thin skins that separate the chemistry of life from the ...

Weighing a single living cell sounds like a party trick, yet the numbers involved are so small that they push the limits of ...

Cells in the body have to move around in order to do their jobs. During development, for instance, cells are distributed to create and grow tissue. And in the event of an immune response, different ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

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 ...

Fuel cells are not some novel new technology. In fact, most history books credit the invention of the fuel cell to Welsh chemist and physicist William Grove, who, in the late 1830s and early 1840s, ...

When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...

No one saw the blob takeover coming. In 2009 a team of biophysicists led by Anthony A. Hyman of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, were studying ...

Kim and Khloé Kardashian had stem cell therapy in Mexico overseen by Dr. Adeel Khan. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Kim Kardashian/Instagram) Khloé Kardashian has “fallen in love with stem ...

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