cell biology

Damaged lysosomes are repaired by a lipid-based signaling pathway dubbed PITT that could be targeted to treat neurodegenerative disease, its discoverers say.

This year’s fourth-place winner of the 2022 Nikon Small World in Motion competition shows dying melanoma cells.

This year’s second-place winner of the 2022 Nikon Small World in Motion competition shows a 12-hour time-lapse of labeled cells.

The top winner of the 2022 Nikon Small World in Motion contest shows cells migrating through a zebrafish embryo.

Her passion came from her son’s struggle with type 1 diabetes and the inability to find new treatments.

Immune cells deliver packages of telomeres to T cells, helping them retain their virus-fighting function over time, research suggests.

A puzzle for millennia, the movement of blood through the body was solved by an English physician in the 17th century, paving the way for modern medical technologies.

Researchers who work with materials such as fetal tissue and human embryonic stem cells are facing new restrictions, the latest in a long line of regulations, that could impede important advances.

Researchers say they've figured out how some reproductive ants live up to 30 years—far longer than workers.

Gut microbiome–based solutions hold promise for addressing obesity, but are they overhyped?

An in situ map of copy number variations in prostate tissue reveals that purportedly cancerous genomic changes frequently occur in the healthy tissue surrounding tumors.

Most of the human induced pluripotent stem cells stored at major cell line repositories and used in research harbor thousands of DNA errors, a study finds, highlighting the need for improved quality control measures.

The cells’ mitochondria skip a key metabolic reaction that takes place in other cells in the body, a study finds.

Using stem cells and a bioreactor, researchers generated living embryos that survived for more than a week and began to develop internal organs.