Unlike virtually every other cell in the human body, the syncytiotrophoblast doesn't have a single nucleus. It has roughly 10 ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have characterized how cellular senescence—a biological process in ...

DNA's iconic double helix does more than "just" store genetic information. Under certain conditions it can temporarily fold into unusual shapes. Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, have now shown ...

Modern cells are complex chemical entities with cytoskeletons, finely regulated internal and external molecules, and genetic ...

Every second, millions of cells in your body divide in two. In the space of an hour, they duplicate their DNA and grow a web ...

In research that could shed light on the growth and formation of complex tissue architectures, Brown University engineers ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

The navigation of stem cells and progenitors to sites of tissue growth, the long-range extension of neuronal projections, and the large-scale movement of cells up or down external gradients all ...