A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed ...

In a trial on colon cancer cells, researchers found that at the moment of critical transition — when cancer and normal cells coexist — they were able to flip the molecular switch that allowed normal ...

By reexamining 3D images used to map the connections between brain cells, researchers are uncovering new information about a small, elusive, and often overlooked cellular appendage.

This complex microbial dance seems to have a really important role in our health. Oral diseases and even oral cancers have ...

In this manuscript the authors established a novel three-dimensional culture system for stratified epithelia that allows epithelial cells to undergo epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and ...

Across the tree of life, human activities are accelerating declines in biological species diversity, from deserts to oceans ...

Scientists have uncovered a key mechanism in jellyfish embryos that provides new insights into how the body plan of these ...

The results showed that drops in microbiome diversity result in effects that cut across many levels of biological ...

The probability of humanity being the sole technological civilization in the observable universe is considered to be less ...

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient ...

Cell division is the process by which a parental cell gives rise to two daughter cells. The process involves both nuclear division and cytokinesis and can either produce two equal cells (symmetric ...

Eating foods high in key nutrients, including iron, folic acid, and vitamin B12, and limiting alcohol may help increase your red blood cell count. Red blood cells are the most common cells in ...