Improvements in public health have allowed humankind to survive to older ages than ever before, but, for many people, these ...

Cells shrink a major internal structure as they age. New research shows this downsizing is deliberate—and linked to longer ...

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

Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, ...

How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.

Researchers examined anatomy of neurons from humans, mice and fruit flies. They discovered that the cellular structure of the brain is at a critical point, poised between two phases. New insights ...

A new study published in Nature Biotechnology shows that stem cell differentiation is linked to cellular structures called P-bodies, providing a potential means of controlling cell identity.

Cells organize their molecules into distinct functional areas. While textbooks usually refer to membrane-bound organelles ...

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 ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, a large team of researchers from the United States (U.S.) used single-cell ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing combined with high-resolution ...