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

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How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast ...

Cells experience many different types of stress, such as starvation or stress caused by too much salt or too high a temperature. Insulin signals respond to such stress signals by sending the protein ...

The issue of cholesterol is a lot more complicated than most people think – there are as many as eight different blood tests ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too large or too small are linked to many diseases. Until now, the genetic basis ...

Researchers found in mice that multiple nutrients and cancer cell characteristics work together to control the spread of ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed two powerful computational tools that could transform how researchers study the "conversations" between cells inside the body. The tools, called ...

Explore new insights into neurodegenerative therapies as researchers observe learning mechanisms in the living brain.

The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting.