Researchers are studying why the energy factories are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat cancer and other diseases.

A team of researchers, led by Stephen Galli, at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, has now uncovered a natural mechanism by which mice reduce the toxicity, and thereby the morbidity and ...

Your skin is crawling with zombies.Zombie skin cells, that is. This sci-fi sounding term is used to describe senescent skin cells that have outlived their usefulness, but don’t ever really die ...

Gila monsters are odd lizards, both from a physical and chemical standpoint. Most people can at least recognize the 1.5-foot-long lizard due its striking bumpy, pink and black scales, squat body ...

But the cells work “like little ambulance drivers,” traveling through the body to help spur healing. Image. Frozen samples at the Cord Blood Registry offices in Tucson in 2006.

Stem cells are immature cells that can develop into many different cell types — including neurons that make dopamine. Positive results One of the new studies involved 12 people in the U.S. and ...

Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated more than 1 billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived symbiotically ...

The Gila monster, which is native to the deserts of North America, can survive on just a few meals a year, ... which were designed to destroy cancer cells while minimizing damage to healthy ones.

Scientists Found Cells That Defy the Rules of Reproduction—and Could Change Biology Mitosis is no longer just what you learned in high school. By Elizabeth Rayne Published: May 06, 2025 1:00 PM EDT ...

Some experts think “xenobot” cells that reorganize themselves after death signify a form of consciousness—while others vehemently disagree.

That’s why it’s important for Congress to take up the challenge and officially designate the Gila River as a Wild and Scenic river. This designation will not change any of the current ...

Due to cancer cells being another example of mesenchymal cells, studying how these cells move and communicate could also help scientists learn how tumors grow and spread. Live imaging captured by ...