New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 ...

Despite the immense amount of genetic material present in each cell, around 3 billion base pairs in humans, this material ...

A research team at The University of Osaka has found a novel pathway for depositing CENP-A into vertebrate centromeres, which ...

Metabolism, far from being just a housekeeping function, underlies all changes in cell size and function ...

Cell signalling pathways are central to maintaining cellular homeostasis and regulating essential functions such as proliferation, apoptosis, and repair. In both cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, ...

In some mammals, the timing of the normally continuous embryonic development can be altered to improve the chances of survival for both the embryo and the mother. This mechanism to temporarily slow ...

Cells spend energy not just on reactions, but on control. New research explains why staying stable comes with an unseen ...

Stanford University-led researchers report that tumor cells hijack mitochondria from immune cells, reducing anti-tumor immune ...

The field of regulated cell death has undergone a transformative shift with the discovery of novel modalities beyond apoptosis, such as ferroptosis, which ...

The tumor microenvironment (TME) is a metabolically dynamic niche where cancer cells and immune cells interact to influence tumor progression and immune ...