The exchange of cells between a mother and a fetus is a well-documented phenomenon that scientists have known about for more ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Every person who has ever been pregnant leaves a biological trace that is far more intimate than a family photo album. During ...

The constant, energy-driven motion inside living cells may generate electricity in a way no one fully recognized before.

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and functions inside living cells, revealing the physical structures that control ...

Cells are crowded with proteins and nucleic acids. A new study measures subcellular densities across organisms to uncover how material is distributed. (Nanowerk News) Just as life pulsates in big ...

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

Researchers have developed experimental compounds that make cells burn more calories by subtly tweaking how mitochondria ...

In a recently published study, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center revealed for the first time that cancer cells can evade anti-cancer drugs by entering and surviving within bone marrow fibroblasts ...