Stanford researchers have found a surprising genetic twist in a lineage of microbes that may play an important role in ocean ...

Seasonal change is reflected everywhere in our daily lives--leaves change color, the produce section at the grocery store ...

Edited by Mark Thiemens, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA; received August 9, 2024; accepted October 28, 2024 ...

A precancerous cell is a cell with certain abnormalities that makes it more likely to become cancerous. These abnormalities don't mean that it will become cancer—in fact, most don't—but the diagnosis ...

Immunotherapy works by harnessing the body's own immune system to eliminate cancer cells, either by broadly enhancing immune activity or by targeting specific pathways to recognize, attack ...

Kidney cells can make memories too. At least, in a molecular sense. Neurons have historically been the cell most associated with memory. But far outside the brain, kidney cells can also store ...

More information: Denghui Zhu et al, Cyanobacteria-intelligent biohybrid system enables light-guided tumor-associated macrophage-specific siRNA delivery, Cell Reports Physical Science (2024).

Labs around the world are trying to turn cells into autobiographers, tracking their own development from embryos to adults. By Carl Zimmer Shortly after conception, a fertilized egg divides ...

For example, cyanobacteria formed large structures called stromatolites in the ... metabolic reactions and replication processes had to come together inside a membrane to make an early form of a cell: ...

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DNA repair: A look inside the cell's 'repair café' Date: November 21, 2024 Source: Hubrecht Institute Summary: New research sheds light on how cells repair damaged DNA. For the first time, the ...

As we move toward advanced technological engineering of cells and organisms, the possibility of bioengineering ecosystems (from the gut microbiome to wildlands) opens several questions that will ...