At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

Immune responses rely on the efficient movement of immune cells within the complex and geometrically unpredictable ...

In every living cell, there are membranes, and in every membrane there are proteins, each of which acts as a chemical ...

Scientists have developed a membrane that can be tuned to selectively enhance or suppress ion flow, mimicking how living ...

New method developed by UTSW researchers removes mysterious organelles from stem cells and embryos to uncover their roles.

Bacterial cell division, a process wherein a single cell divides to form two identical daughter cells, represents one of the ...

A Ludwig Cancer Research study has identified a complex chain of molecular chatter by which cancer cells, exploiting ordinary ...

In a scientific first, researchers from Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Diego, have generated a high-resolution metabolic "map" of how cells orchestrate glucose processing, ...