Bristle worms have protrusions that act like a 3D printer, helping us to understand how cells regenerate. Most people will ...

Animal cells have many small vacuoles within them while plant cells have one large one. The vacuole within a plant cell can ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many technical and ethical hurdles, what is the real motivation?

Turtles live centuries with almost no cancer. Here’s what researchers found inside their ancient cells — and why it matters ...

Hertz Fellow Reuben Saunders developed a powerful new CRISPRi-based screening platform to silence genes in millions of cells across living tissues. His award-winning thesis, “Pooled genetic screens ...

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these ...

Lab-grown beef, chicken and even quail are served in restaurants in some countries around the world - and now some cultivated ...

Direct, morphological comparisons between human and animal cells could boost the findings, says Paredes.

Kansas researchers are monitoring the spread of an invasive tick species that poses a threat to the state’s cattle through a ...

Males imprint their DNA by adding methyl modifications to it in a way that alters the activity of genes in order to promote ...

While humans can regularly replace certain cells, like those in our blood and gut, we cannot naturally regrow most other parts of the body. For example, when the tiny sensory hair cells in our inner ...