A new discovery inside your cells may change how scientists understand disease and design future treatments. Researchers have ...

Receptor proteins, expressed on the cell surface or within the cell, bind to different signaling molecules, known as ligands, ...

Cell division is one of the most thoroughly studied processes in biology, yet many of its details remain mysterious. A century-old puzzle surrounding the "crown" of cell division—the kinetochore ...

After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025, and a previously unknown cellular structure that could be vital to our ...

A ‘noisy’ chromatin structure allows cells to take on different identities, helping the immune system but possibly leading to ...

The hippocampus is an important brain region known to support various cognitive (i.e., mental) processes, including the ...

Steven McKnight and Dirk Görlich received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for their work on the role of ...

If you've ever accidentally sliced yourself on broken glass or a piece of paper, you may have noticed that the bleeding can ...

Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) is the most common form of dementia, with symptoms appearing after age 65. Since ...