Plants constantly juggle oxygen inside their cells, but scientists have now discovered a surprising twist in how that balance works. Researchers at the University of Helsinki found that ...

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

Collagen, the protein that builds skin, bones, tendons and organs, exists inside cells as a liquidlike droplet rather than the long, rigid rod seen in textbooks over the last half-century, according ...

The international research group led by Professor Martin Green from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia has published Version 68 of the “Solar Cell Efficiency Tables” in Joule. “One ...

What if a single immune cell could destroy dozens of others around it simply by exploding like a tiny bomb? That's exactly what a team of Stanford researchers has discovered while studying planarian ...

For most of medicine’s history, blood has been treated as a delivery system that carries oxygen, nutrients and waste. Two new studies suggest that view sells our own biology short, and they could ...

In every cell of your body, there are mysterious speckles. You need a microscope to see them, but if you peer closely, you will see lots of tiny dots: some sitting still, some moving around as if ...

College football players used to sport giant shoulder pads when they played. Illustration: Demetrius Robinson / The Athletic; ...

Mitochondria don’t just generate energy—they also carefully organize their own DNA in a surprisingly elegant way. Scientists have discovered that a long-overlooked phenomenon called “mitochondrial ...

For most of medical history, aging has been treated as a kind of slow damage accumulation, the body accruing wear the way a car does. A small army of researchers is now making a different argument, ...

A research consortium has established a new framework to identify and catalog senescent cells—cells that stop dividing but remain active in the body. Because senescent cells accumulate with age and ...