Heidelberg biochemists and structural biologists from Shanghai unravel the roles of two key regulatory factors in mRNA ...

Plant cells without walls, known as protoplasts, are very fragile, and it has been difficult to keep them alive under a ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ...

As warehouses go, nuclei are more like libraries than bank vaults. Too many cellular components need access to the genome to lock it down like Fort Knox. Instead, large groupings of more than 1,000 ...

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus, gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from ...

These cells can't fight infections well. They can also spread to other parts of your body. Usually, your body makes new lymphocytes only when you need them to replace old cells that have died.

The earliest days after fertilization, once a sperm cell meets an egg ... them to activate or modify genes important for other parts of development. This allows the embryo models to be ...

You can increase white blood cells (WBCs) by taking certain medications and eating immune-boosting foods, like yogurt, lean protein foods, antioxidant-rich vegetables, and more. Maintaining a normal ...

The method from scientists at Linköping University in Sweden can recycle all parts of a modern solar cell repeatedly without environmentally hazardous solvents—and the recycled solar cell has ...

Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, ...