Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural ...

Living cells may generate electricity through the natural motion of their membranes. These fast electrical signals could play ...

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

RNA is usually portrayed as a molecule that works deep inside the cell, helping to turn genetic information into proteins.

Scientists have discovered that T cell receptors activate through a hidden spring-like motion that had never been seen before. This breakthrough may help explain why immunotherapy works for some ...

Cells in the body have to move around in order to do their jobs. During development, for instance, cells are distributed to create and grow tissue. And in the event of an immune response, different ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on the discovery of microRNA, a molecule that governs how cells in the ...

Fuel cells are not some novel new technology. In fact, most history books credit the invention of the fuel cell to Welsh chemist and physicist William Grove, who, in the late 1830s and early 1840s, ...

How Does Alecensa Work for Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)? Alecensa is a type of medicine called a kinase inhibitor. Kinases are enzymes that work in the body by sending and receiving signals that ...

How Does Zynlonta Work for B-Cell Lymphoma? Zynlonta is an antibody drug conjugate (ADC), which is a type of targeted cancer medicine. ADCs work as smart bombs to find cancer cells in the body that ...

Imagine if our bodies could grow new organs throughout our entire lives. Plants do this constantly, thanks to tiny, powerful reservoirs of stem cells. But how do these cells know when to divide, and ...