Apart from carrying the information to encode proteins in, RNA molecules can adopt intricate 2D and 3D structures. Specifically, the same RNA molecule can switch between ON and OFF structures, ...

As the Trump administration reshapes biomedicine, it wants to change how scientists test drug safety: animal research.

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen ...

The cure for diabetes is a life free from daily insulin injections. Based on that criterion, ten out of 12 people (83%) in a new clinical trial were cured of their diabetes one year after ...

Move over, wrinkle creams—caffeine may hold the key to a longer life.

Current approved CAR T-cell therapy treatments rely on an ex vivo route, in which a patient’s T cells are removed, genetically engineered to target antigens, and put back into the patient. From ...

Zimislecel is an allogeneic stem cell–derived islet-cell therapy. Data on the safety and efficacy of zimislecel in persons with type 1 diabetes are needed.

Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly genetically identical cells. Depending on the organism, these cells ...

In animal cells, a structure called the mitotic spindle segregates the chromosomes before the cells divide; it also dictates the position where cell division occurs.

Mitochondria made cells social, binding them in a contract whereby the survival of each cell depends on every other one, and thus made us possible.

Researchers have developed a method to extract living cells from feces that they say could help conservationists better understand the genetic diversity of wildlife — and in the long run, could ...