We have all experienced frustrating hours of searching for and collating information on the structure and function of a particular protein. Now, we can find all that information in one place, by ...

A hidden structure inside the cell is rewriting how scientists understand leukemia. Beneath the microscope, what looked like ...

Cells with nuclei bear certain similarities to simple archaeal cells, which may help clear up their fuzzy evolutionary past. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

In 2015, researchers at UC San Francisco found a structure inside of tumor cells that biologists had never seen before. Even more surprising, a closer examination of the structure revealed that it ...

Plant a seed and, if the conditions are right, the seed grows. The process seems simple enough at first glance and is something many of us may feel like we learned in elementary school.

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. More than 1.5 billion years ago, a momentous thing happened: Two small, primitive cells became one. Perhaps more than any event—barring the ...

Stem cells have the ability to turn into different types of cell. Now scientists have developed a method to organize lab-grown stem cells into an accurate model of the first stage of human embryo ...

DnaK/DnaJ or Trigger factor and find that chaperone dependence during primary biogenesis in vivo does not track with ...

Life on Earth possesses an exceptional ability to self-reproduce, which, even on a simple cellular level, is driven by complex biochemistry. But can self-reproduction exist in a biochemistry-free ...