An international team of scientists has unveiled the most comprehensive model yet that explains how cells control the flow of ...

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Scientists at UCSF identified a key cellular switch that plays a large role in pulmonary fibrosis, and found a way of ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered how cells can adjust their gene activity to survive when oxygen runs low ...

Kate Adamala started work on a cell in which the natural molecular structure is reversed. Then a possible doomsday scenario became clear.

CRISPR-based tools can’t easily access the DNA in these organelles, but researchers are finding other ways in.

Researchers found “chemical fossils” in ancient rocks containing 30-carbon steranes, a stable form of sterols present in the cell membranes of complex organisms.

An estimated 10 nonillion (10 to the 31st power) individual viruses exist on our planet—enough to assign one to every star in the universe 100 million times over. Yet, most of the time, our species ...

Some eukaryotes consist of a single cell; but most single-celled creatures are made of simpler cells which lack obvious subdivisions and in which membranes are used almost exclusively to define the ...