The exchange of cells between a mother and a fetus is a well-documented phenomenon that scientists have known about for more ...

A study led by Maria Carmo-Fonseca at GIMM has helped clarify one of the main limitations of lab-grown heart cells, which are ...

Creating mini mitochondria factories helped recharge damaged cells in a dish, providing proof-of-concept work that could pave ...

Membranes are constantly bending as a result of heat fluctuating randomly through the cell. In theory, any voltage produced ...

The constant, energy-driven motion inside living cells may generate electricity in a way no one fully recognized before.

The immune system provides constant surveillance for the body, aiming to spot and eliminate disease-causing microbes or ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

Your liver cells are forgetting how to do their jobs under dietary stress. Here's how that signals cancer risk years before tumors appear.

Researchers have developed experimental compounds that make cells burn more calories by subtly tweaking how mitochondria ...

A protein once thought to simply help cancer cells avoid death turns out to do much more. MCL1 actively drives cancer ...