Leonie Schön's Lamellipodium Art blends medicine and art, turning microscopic images of cells and tissues into striking ...

UCSF researchers are using tiny "mini-organs" to model disease, personalize treatment, and understand human development. They ...

For centuries, humanity has wrestled with a profound question: what truly separates non-living matter from actual, breathing ...

How many times have you wondered about the Big Bang and theory of how life on Earth as we know it, came to be? Or what the ...

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

Researchers at the University of Münster and Ruhr University Bochum have demonstrated for the first time in real time that the body's own defense cells use catecholamines—neurotransmitters such as ...

There is a constant war going on in your body. Working against you are viruses and cancer cells growing uncontrollably, threatening your tissues and organs. Fighting on your side are immune cells such ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

The mechanical process of cell division exerts powerful, if microscopic, forces. How do the molecular machines that power it ...