One of the key challenges of the modern genomics era is studying the thousands of genes in a single human cell at scale. To ...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

Ring-shaped extrachromosomal DNA is implicated in many cancers. Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to uncover their ...

Siegfried Musser, PhD, and his team in the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics at the Texas A&M College of Medicine have ...

Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different sounds like keys on a ...

Just as cities must carefully manage the flow of cars in and out of downtown, cells regulate the movement of molecules into and out of the nucleus.

"Incredibly flexible" spoken language is produced through delicate patterns in the human brain, the researchers say. To determine whether the patterns are unique to humans, the research team performed ...

A new study explains how a parakeet's brain helps it to mimic human words. By recording for the first time the brain activity ...

Antibodies, which recognize viruses and proteins that the body has encountered before, have long gotten most of the credit ...

As our bodies grow, cells proliferate to form tissues, and cells frequently have to be repaired or replaced throughout life..