New research suggests that the heart's constant mechanical force may inhibit cancer cell growth, explaining its rarity in ...

Researchers have uncovered a fundamental rule that governs how genes are physically arranged inside the cell nucleus, and how ...

Cancer cells travel through the blood like restless seeds, searching for places to take root. Yet one organ they almost never ...

Daphnia, also known as water fleas, are artists of defense. When their predators live nearby, the water fleas change their ...

What makes them unique: Plant cells have structures like cell walls, large vacuoles, and chloroplasts, enabling photosynthesis and giving them shape and strength unlike animal cells. How they capture ...

Misshapen proteins cause a mess of trouble—particularly in neurodegenerative diseases. But a new study suggests it's possible ...

REGENXBIO Inc.  announced positive topline and interim functional data from the pivotal Phase III portion of the Phase I/II/III AFFINITY DUCHENNE® trial of RGX-202, a potential best-in-class gene ...

Some people get up at six in the morning and manage to redo half of their tasks by noon. Others, at the same time, can barely ...

A team of international researchers led by senior lecturer Åsa Mackenzie at Lund University has received a $9 million USD grant from the Aligning ...

Microglia, the immune cells that protect the brain, are thought to maintain a healthy brain environment by removing unwanted substances through dynamic remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton, the cell's ...

A largely overlooked structure inside our cells may play a crucial role in how the brain forms, offering new insight into ...