“While the rest of the genome shuffles between the maternal and paternal origins, centromeres are inherited intact: one from ...

A new study integrated mathematical modeling with advanced imaging to discover that the physical shape of the fruit fly egg chamber, combined with chemical signals, significantly influences how cells ...

Ever wondered how the different cells in our body communicate with each other to fulfill their different roles-be it cells repairing a tissue injury or immune cells moving towards an invading pathogen ...

The structure of a cell’s nucleus has long served as a visible clue to whether a cell is healthy or affected by disease. While scientists have made major progress in understanding genes and their ...

Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a study finds, furthering the understanding of the possible effects of ...

Researchers took stem cells from bone marrow and found that after a little over a month in space, the functions of those ...